Erosion or corrosion?
The asking price is not out of line. Grey Sheet for an 1856 FEC is $11,500/$12,500 in PR-60 and $12,800/$13,800 in PR-63. You can make an offer...
Grey Sheet for an 1893-S Morgan Dollar graded XF is $6,850/$7,500 (Bid/Ask) and VF is $4,850/$5,250. It would appear that the price you paid...
A genuine railroad rim will mushroom out at the unstruck portion of the edge.
The copper layer has been removed, either by heat or chemicals.
Just to clarify, Denver also struck coins without a mintmark during 1965-1967.
Have you weighed the coin?
Definitely.
1888/7 means the last digit of the date is an 8 punched over a 7. 8/7 means EIGHT OVER SEVEN.
I may be mistaken but I thought the Old SF Mint was replaced by the New SF Mint during the 1930s, not the 1970s.
The San Francisco Mint ceased production of coins in 1955. During the coin shortage crisis 1965-1967 the SF Mint was brought back on-line to...
I'm a bit confused. You asked about buying rolls of half dollars but you posted a photo of rolls of Presidential Dollar coins. Are you buying...
Same company.
You can click on the link to the article and read it yourself. The last line of the article states: The 2008 Red Book lists a value of $50,000...
This coin is damaged. It may have gotten stuck in a fin inside a commercial clothes dryer.
Stay away from this company. This is just another in a long line of hyped-up, overpriced, somewhat deceptively-advertised crap that they sell.
Would a blank be worth anything? Sure. Error collectors love stuff like that. But don't get your hopes up to get more than a few bucks for it. I...
Without a raised rim it is not an unstruck planchet. It could be a blank but it is highly unlikely a blank would make it through the system.
A photo would be nice. From the sound of it it could be an unstruck planchet. Does it have a raised rim?
That's about right. edit That's about right for a Silver 1992-S Proof Set.
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