The key for Close and Wide AM's is still, if the space between the AM is the same as between ME it is a Wide AM. If the space between the AM is...
You need to look at more brilliant proofs of the late 50's early 60's. Back then they over used the proof dies, then would just repolish them and...
The custom holder actually had 8 holes (I've seen it) it held the five 1913 V nickels, two pattern buffalos and one regular buffalo nickel. After...
A rational approach that guarantees you will never pay more than your maximum for a coin, but which also makes it very likely you will pay more...
And now for something completely different.....
They did do so back in the early 20th century with the mercury dime and buffalo nickel, but in general they don't. They might use planchets of new...
What I don't understand about these is how they can occur. A single curved clip I can see. Two curved clips I can see, two curved and one...
Remember perspective. The horses head would be closer to the viewer and SHOULD be larger.
Well from this article we know there will be at least 5, and from earlier reports they did mention proofs so I would expect at least one proof for...
Nope. Blow up the image posted by Mike Estes, which IS a Close AM, and you will see that the A and M are still separated and do not touch.
It's a pairing of Obv 1 and Rev F, a pairing that did not occur with a genuine coin. Rev F is obvious from the stemless wreath. If you look...
For the six I named the person shown on the coin was intended to BE that person, not a symbolic or allegorical representation. The image on the...
The six people that have had their image appear on US coins while living are Alabama Governor T. E. Kirby President Calvin Coolidge Senator...
But if you let a TPG take it out you can point at the label, and it's worth more than 1 cent.
Most recent was Nancy Reagan. Her first spouse coin was struck before she died, but she passed before it went on sale.
I agree with goldfinger, they look like 5 oz silver quarters.
Not always. I have to admit I've seen a lot of feed finger scrapes on the rev of coins, I'm not sure I've seen them on the obv.
Feed finger scrapes are from the feed fingers scraping across the face of the die not the planchets. When you find a coin that shows feed finger...
Yes they could make them out of plated steel, in fact that is one of the things they have been studying for the past ten year. But there are...
They are made with dies, roller dies with one roller having the design engraved in it and the other die is smooth and helps press the coin into...
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