Except for T1 buffalos, 1916 and 17 type 1 standing Liberty quarters, and some one year only type coins.
That is true and there is a lot of correspondence in the archives on the subject. Whether it was proper, complaints about the mint competing with...
Try a wire brush. :D
The only time I might post something like that is if a serious question has been asked and no one has responded for some time (like five of six...
You are on the road to being a numismatist, and not just a coin collector. Yes books can be expensive, not having books can be more expensive....
Not in 1974. Thickness at the edge is more a function of striking pressure than anything else. A stronger strike allows for more complete...
Go to the Newman Numismatic Portal, under Periodicals search for The Gobrecht Journal. Year 2005, then issue 94, then for year 2006 issue 97....
There are seven die combinations that were used by the Confederacy (six with Union dies one with the Confederate reverse) W-9 thru W-15. There...
I don't believe so, but since ALL of the 2017 Philadelphia cents had the P mintmark people would have had to hoard over 2 billion coins. So they...
The mint had the same problem with the three cent nickels that they did with the shield nickels. The hard planchets tore up the dies quickly and...
Then either you never took chemistry (most people don't), or your school had an even more substandard educational system than mine did, and ours...
It won't. It will remove dirt, grease, organic material, but the only verdigris it will remove is stuff that is already loose, and that is...
Other than the stuff on the rev it is a VERY nice example of "ghosting".
A large part of that is the fact that with the super high mintages of all the recent coinage, nearly 60 years since the end of silver, and with...
It is the bisected date and that die was only used by the CSA.
Or PCGS, they got so fed up getting called out for slabbing proofs as business strikes and business strikes as proofs that they made a decision...
The problem with something like this is you are comparing the coins to ONE known counterfeit. If say there were a dozen people making...
Why? Well more than likely large cents were counterstamped indiscriminately. But as collecting took hold and damaged large cents were redeemed...
The 1794 to 1803 dollars didn't do well because they were overvalued and were more profitably exported. Spanish 8 reales were also in circulation,...
One correction. on thr lare dates I said John Grellman, that should be Bob Grellman.
Separate names with a comma.
