The 1872 half dime is just Longacre doubling. Blow up the image and notice how the doubling goes all the way around the lettering in AMERICA.
I suspect a cent placed off-center in an encasement ring pre-strike. During the strike we get part of the encasement ring design, part of the obv...
Not really, but the Mint doesn't always do the packaging either. In any case it isn't considered a mint error and it is too easy to fake by...
Damage, scratches, mishandling etc doesn't reduce survival rate. It reduces the rate in the top condition, but not the overall rate. Pretty much...
OK I told you on another thread that this was either a N-9 or a N-10. That thread didn't have rev pictures, Now I can definitely say it is the...
Careful, you get those other three and you're going to find yourself wanting a date set of Draped busts. And then you hit the 1799 and 1804. :)
Don't look at the overall size of the top of the 8 look at the size of the INSIDE of the upper loop compared to the inside of the bottom loop. On...
Especially with the Sec of the Treasury saying the way to combat the current high inflation is for the government to dump trillions more dollars...
Possibly a combination environmental damage and dryer coin (ED for the color and dryer to remove the reeding)
Email sent, and I would not advise putting your email in posts. There are crawler bots that look to harvest email addresses for spam and phishing...
That was 100,000 1893 S Morgans not 400,000, only about half the mintage of these 2021's. And the 2021's are going to have a nearly 100% survival...
In 2019 they sold 319K W and 146K S proof ASE, in 2020 they sold 357K W proof ASE, in 2021 229K Type 1 W 323K type 2 W, and 254K S proof ASE. I...
That are 6 months old.
It used to be you could request a private search ahead of time so you wouldn't have to risk a loose lipped X-ray person. And I would have gotten...
Unless they state the variety on the holder and you can confirm it be careful. There are a lot of slabbed Machins out there that aren't Machins.
Many people wait until later in the year to order things so they can get everything at once and pay just one shipping charge. In 2020 in October...
He's yanking your chain.
Without better images, right now I'm at...vice job that has subsequently been in a corrosive environment.
I think for the regular proof ASE's it's still pretty much everyone who wants one can have one. The limited special ones are a different matter.
Shhh, not too loud, they'll get fired.
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