Bathrooms tend to be built with VERY solid floors (often concrete), settling isn't likely to be a problem. Except it isn't. (Very common...
The images makes the size of these things deceptive. At 500 grains each of those medals would be 20% larger than a silver dollar
Considering the clashing of the dies is not a planned even but rather an accident, and something that can happen at any time, with tens of...
The bust is wrong, the stars are wrong, the date is wrong, the font is wrong, the dentils are wrong, the rim is wrong, the edge is wrong, and I...
A high end SMS is easy to determine, a low end or typical MS coin is eaasy to determine. Telling a high end MS from a lower end SMS....good luck.
Attribution is correct, and the edge inscription is correct, most likely was run through the Castaining machine twice with the blank flipped over...
15.4324 grains = 1 gram 500 grains / 15.4324 = 32.399 grams 32.399 grams * .925 = 29.97 grams of silver per "coin" 29.97 grams / 31.1 grams = .964...
Actually has been done. Frome time to time the Mint actually does do "first Strike ceremonies and VIP's and selected guests are allowed to strike...
There were no photos in the palace collection catalog and as far as I know no other contemporary images either.
First thing to do is hit it with an XRF gun and make sure it isn't environmental damage.
The dies coming together is a mishap or error that creates a change in the die, the coins produced by those clashed dies are a die stage. The...
Very nice Marshall, and no question at all about the attribution.
Closer to 48 oz. This is probably a fairly old set, the Franklin Mint is basically just a marketer of other people junk. They haven't done...
Say what? Error in the article, in 2002 it was the MOST expensive, it is currently #2. At the time anyone had to get an export license for gold...
Go back to the early years at PCGS and NGC and you will find that most of their graders were trained at ANACS.
They talk about the items being "low value" so that pretty much knocks out all the major auction houses unless you just want them to bulk lot...
Probably the same way we did in the late 60's early 70's when there were 90%, 40% and copper nickel clad coins in circulation. You accepted any...
Beaten to death post strike.
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