As mentioned, silver, either as articles of use or bulk, served as a medium of exchange. Abraham purchased a field and cave to bury his wife,...
I didn't see where the OP said anything about a doubled die or added value, only doubling and a shattered die. I, too, find it interesting that...
I stopped buying proofs from the mint many years ago when they sent me a set with one of the coins smudged with dark grease of some sort. They...
I meant MY statement was tongue-in-cheek. Of course, perhaps the problem with Liberty on the coin was not mumps but having its tongue in its...
This was said tongue-in-cheek. On the other hand, there are lots of things that sell for ridiculous prices on those sites that are obvious junk....
Big mistake. You could have sold it for a fortune on eBay or Etsy as the only one with the mumps!
Even the ancient Greeks counterfeited money to be spent. There were no collectors that I know of when the Phoenicians counterfeited my "Athenian"...
It's possible it was faked back in 1949 or shortly thereafter in order to spend it, just as recently Britain has had a lot of fake pounds to...
Not only will they raise their prices, but they will continue to create rarities to keep the prices up, such as the gold eagles marked with V75 in...
I don't have a lot of bulls on coins. This is my earliest, with a bull on the right facing a lion on the left. Lydia, Croesus trihemiobol,...
Not an expert, but it looks like it to me.
Post mint damage. Somebody whacked it or tried to cut it.
I, also, would like to see your coin.
I doubt that there are more than three truly unsearched rolls of wheat cents left in the world, and they are all on sale on eBay and etsy with...
As mentioned above, hold them by the edge carefully (don't drop!) with clean hands, even when going through rolls. You never know what you might...
The edge you show, with more of the copper-nickel showing on one side than the other, is quite normal. It is caused by the cutting process....
It's hard to imagine selling something like that, or buying it, but I can see the usefulness of the slab. Not really for the grade, of course,...
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Hugely interesting, but not errors. Even a modern overstrike would not be an error unless it was done unintentionally. Mischievous, perhaps, but...
No pictures, nothing there.
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