FWIW, National Numismatic Certification, LLC is an ACTIVE Florida business, registered in 2005 (here). Like most business registrations, it's...
You KNOW what to do, you want to do something less honest and ignore that voice in your head. The honest thing to do is "I'm splitting up Dad's...
You perhaps need a better understanding of what a "VAM" is. It's a die marriage - the combination of an obverse die and reverse die. By that...
There are something like 10,000 different taxing jurisdictions in the US, each with different boundaries and rules. Some rules are state-wide,...
Use their submission \ cert #s to lookup the different coin #s and use them on your submission
It would be interesting to ask, since the 2-chamber style used by INS & others clearly engineers around the Accugrade 3-chamber patent, filed in...
SMS is, under the covers, a lash-up of different trchnologies at different providers. So there are various other service providers that offer...
I like the extended reach, if Isaiah or Denis posts something they found up north or Drew who hits all the Houston area shows (and a lot more ......
Actually, numismatically there is an active Buy/Sell community out there on IG. For many big-name dealers, it's just another channel to showcase...
I have at least six different INSAB styles... including one of the polaroids. @Pickin and Grinin that is Conder101's INS-4,...
The interesting thing is you will find these in MS and circulated low grades too. Promoters returned the unsold inventory to the Mint, thinking...
There is also no unifying theme. It's whatever random location or event that backers were able to convince Congress to honor. Some 3rd rate...
They were actually quite reputable. There were some people from ANACS who didn't make the move to Colorado and created INS. What you have to know...
Phew. @kanga if it had been earlier we would never know. All the data prior to September (?) 2005 shows September 2005 as that was when it was...
No. It looks simply like the normal blue mountain details label in the late phase (2M+). What you are pointing to is a specific combination of a...
Bunk that it's an agreement with the Taliban. It is unilaterally imposed and was requested on an emergency basis by the previous Afgan government...
@furryfrog02 it most surely was. We had a local helper, who led us to the good bar and the good chippy in town. Not out of the goodness of his...
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It's amazingly hard work. When I was in Uni, they had a summer archeology dig with a UK University and they were willing to take an engineer to...
It does seem, anecdotally, that planchets for higher value coins are less commonly found. We see a lot of cents, but the mint has used them as...
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