I vote counterfeit.
Hobo's 1,000th Post Contest - Worst US Commemorative Coin OK - I give up. For some reason I cannot fix the link to my contest. The url is:...
What does this coin weigh?
There are many professional coin photographers who would disagree with you on that point.
You may be thinking of the modern 4-gang presses (e.g., those used to strike Cents for circulation). Proof coins are struck one at a time. Until...
Marked - not bent. Teeth marks could be left in soft gold coins (or so the tale goes).
0.900 0.9167 for early gold issues
So that would be "unknowing" customers, not "unknown" customers?
An extra fee only for their "unknown" customers? That just doesn't seem fair.
I wonder how much more it costs to refine .99999 gold than it costs to refine .9999 gold. (Probably more than the extra purity is worth.)
It could have been an eviction. With all the foreclosures people are being evicted every day. Just the other day our local paper had a front page...
The reeded edge contributed to the failure of the SBA Dollar because it was similar in size to the quarter and was copper-nickel clad like the...
That's an amazing find. Just think, if the box had not be interesting to you all those notes would be in a landfill somewhere. And no one would...
The Utah State Quarter has TWO trains and the Golden Spike. [IMG]
Bo and Bert were the two greatest Hobo Nickel carvers. Few can afford their works.
Their selection for an example of a Hobo Nickel was VERY non-typical.
The coin business is like a lot of other businesses. Let's look at a small used car lot: How can a single guy afford to buy 50 cars to sell on...
They could be copper spots (but I doubt it). Copper spots are common older 90% gold US coins because they were 10% copper and sometimes the copper...
Mintmarks are no longer punched period. Not by hand. Not by machine. Mintmarks are now made a part of the Master Hub (raised just like on a coin)....
I surely didn't complain that your font was too big.
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