From my own experience and observations via submitting and examining many coins, I think the yellow-label ANACS are the strictest and most...
The distinction is between making a completely "new" coin versus taking an existing genuine coin and altering it (without fraudulent intent). You...
John Dannreuther has photos of an original 1964 Peace Dollar master hub. Those photos have never been released (no photos of any 1964 Peace...
My first over-strikes came out in 2010. Numerous Chinese "fantasy" coins were in the market prior to that. Nobody else has done any fantasy-date...
Chinese "1964" Peace dollars and large numbers of counterfeits existed in the marketplace before I ever over-struck any coins.
No "1964" dollars were ever issued, according to the US Treasury Department. If somebody refuses to perform a minimal amount of due diligence...
Regardless of the mint mark (or lack of one) "1921" is not a "fantasy date" for Peace Dollars.
What other person or entity has over-struck genuine coins to produce fantasy dates that were never issued for that type ? There can't be a...
I've been busy with too many things happening at once. But I'll be picking up the pace on production and shipping of pending orders going into the...
And that makes it "superior" ;) I considered it.
This is true. But if the US Mint had actually produced a half cent in 1858 there is no technical reason that it couldn't have had the (superior)...
There have not been any cases of "counterfeit" collector coins being seized in recent times that I am aware of, except maybe one instance....
What "vaults" were those ? The easiest vaults to access would have been the Treasury's own vaults. But a lot of bags of uncirculated silver...
The EASIEST silver dollars to acquire and melt would have been all those bags of uncirculated silver dollars that were just sitting in bank...
I have my theory. If you can get through my 35-screen slide show, my reasoning will be evident:...
Nice one. I think there is a very strong possibility that it will grade AU-58. The pictures were taken with a scanner, which tends to make coins...
No, I did not make that. The only blanks I buy pre-made are some 39mm round silver, copper, brass, and nickel. I also make some of the above...
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I would first put it in some strong solvent and use a q-tip (or similar) to get black gunk off of it (as much as possible). If it is still spotty...
I won't decide that until I see how they come out (and how hard they are to produce). If it appears likely that there will be a lot of rejects to...
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