Looks very nice. The buyer must have thought so, too.
Check your Red Book. Proof issues are listed in parentheses. The US Mint started minting Proof coins for collectors (and by that I mean the...
That is probably because they did not have any impaired (circulated) Proof Barber Halves. Once a Proof, always a Proof. A circulated Proof coin...
Yes, it is copper-nickel. 75% copper / 25% nickel. The coin looks discolored. It may be a dug coin or, at a minimum, the coin may have lain on...
I believe this is what he is referring to:
The "sniffer" shouldn't detect anything because there is nothing unusual to detect - no added chemicals, no added metal, etc. Expert graders /...
Technically it is a variety, not an error. (Unlike an error, every coin struck by that die has the save O/S.)
Ron, that is true of the cheap Chinese counterfeits we are so familiar with. But the Chinese offer higher-grade fakes that meet US Mint specs for...
The coins are counterfeit. Does it really matter if the 10% is copper?
Coin collectors routinely refer to "90% silver". It is understood the remaining 10% is copper. I am fairly certain the Chinese counterfeiter is...
What makes you think the 10% is not copper? Have you weighed the coin?
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They would make great reference pieces to study so you learn what to cheap Chinese fakes look like. When you compare fakes like this to genuine...
Fortunately she is not out a lot of money. (I assume by taking them as payment (as you said) that she is out only $1 each.) If the customer spent...
I have used Irfanview for years. It is a free download and very easy to use as well as very powerful.
Just to clarify, don't treat slabbed coins as commodities. Not all MS-64s are the same. If coins were graded to one decimal place some 64s would...
I think it is the other way around. The silver center survived. I suspect the gold ring was sold for its gold content first.
Buy the coin, not the slab.
Longacre doubling appears on practically all IHCs.
??????? This coin had a mintage of 5,000, Professor.
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