Are "trail dies" anything like "trial dies"?
Are you talking about the American Silver Eagle bullion coin with the Walking Liberty design or did you mean to say Walking Liberty Half Dollars?...
Carl, I know your above post was in jest but the Subtreasury used to counterstamp coins. If a gold coin or a silver coin was found to be too...
Or a dollar two eighty. :ohya:
Sounds like a counterstamp. Can you post a photo?
Your coin cannot have 2 VAMs. A VAM is created by a specific set of dies (obverse and reverse) that are paired together. Coins struck from those...
Looks like a cracked planchet to me because the crack is into the coin. A die crack would be raised on the coin.
There are several clues that some of these coins are fakes other than the obvious (wrong weight, wrong material, color, lack of details, etc.)....
It means NGC would not slab it (unless it slipped past them somehow). I think ANACS would slab it with a notation of "Altered Surfaces", "Cleaned"...
I don't see a mintmark. It looks like a 1909 to me. Is it a VDB?
Nice medal. And very interesting. What an outrage that a glass of beer cost 1/3 more than a pound of bread. Afterall, beer is nothing more than...
Yep. I agree. It's a squeeze job (aka, vice job). Another cent was pressed into your coin. It is nothing more than post-mint damage. No collector...
Looks like the coin is toning. By the way - - - welcome to CoinTalk.
You forgot to add a smiley to your post. :D
Those grades are ficticious. They bear no relationship with reality.
Too late, Rick. :kewl: Actually, there are tons and tons of interesting stories about numismatics (or any subject) just waiting to be discovered...
Thanks for the reports. It sounds like things are slowing down a bit but there is still activity. It's great that members of CoinTalk can get...
That design is what I call 'butt ugly'. YUCK! My eye was drawn to the '1¢'. To my knowledge the US Mint has always spelled out CENT or CENTS or...
Congrats, bq. That's a nice Shield Nickel. I really like that series. The 1868 is known for several varieties of broken letters on the reverse....
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