I recommend All About Coins. Bob Campbell is a past-President of ANA and teaches Counterfeit Detection every year at ANA Summer Seminar. He is a...
Something. Their methods are confidential.
I couldn't wait. http://www.cointalk.com/t141506/
The rim or the edge? His photo is of the edge.
I agree. The US never minted the 1877 $50 Union so the modern incarnation would not be a copy. There was nothing to copy and it should not be...
Frosty can be good. Can you post some good photos?
connor, That is a CR # H16. (CR stands for Criswell number. Grover Criswell catalogued the currency of Southern states back in the 1950s.) What...
Where is the seam? Along the edge or inside the rim?
If there is no seam along the edge look just inside the rim. Many magician coins are made by removing one side of the coin using a lathe (which...
These ads have been out for quite some time. From what I remember, the seller had dies made from original sketches of a proposed design that...
A die chip is a cavity in the die. That would produce a raised effect on the coin. "Something getting caught in the die" would either produce a...
Looks like a die chip. To be a cud it would have to include the rim.
Edward A. King. The ANA Library lists several books authored by several Kings. If you are near Colorado Springs (and you are an ANA member) you...
Google "E.A. King".
If your goal is to invest in silver you should consider buying ASEs (American Silver Eagles). They are one ounce .999 silver. You will pay only a...
Impossible to tell much from those photos. Better photos - in focus and without the major glare - would help.
The neck. Notice how the truncation of the neck is pointed on the 1864 'L' IHC and rounded on the 'No L' varieties. No. The date was...
By golly, you may be right. I thought what she was saying was (to paraphrase), "I have several wheaties AND some silver coins." But, now that you...
I have no idea. I am a collector, not an investor.
That is impressive. Thanks for sharing.
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