Not really a "clever ploy", just following the law. 1933 double eagles were openly bought and sold, Farouk wanted one and his representative...
You can't "save" it, the best you can do is to keep it from getting any worse.
Pure nickel is highly magnetic. When alloyed with other metals it will retain some of its magnetic properties until the percentage of other...
I'm under no obligation to provide my heirs with a windfall. And how can they be disappointed? They have no idea what I paid or what they are...
When I see or hear a comment like that my first thought is always "Why?" I mean you have already bought and paid for it, you own it. So now why...
They weren't "officially" stolen government property until the case was decided and all appeals ended. Until then they were just stolen property...
If you had the Verdicare you should have used it first. It is designed to remove verdigris from copper and that is most likely what the "rust" was.
Probably most of the ones you are missing are older ones and they aren't making those anyway so discontinuing the cent won't affect them, they...
Spec is 8.1 grams +/- .3 grams so it can have a rage of 7.8 to 8.4 grams and still be within legal tolerance. Your coin is .08 grams too light....
If if you could prove it was a 4 (it isn't) that would be amazing because there are no 1994 WAM cents known or even reported.
Was ODV-036 used in 1990? because that's the date I'm seeing.
The OP coin does show flowlining. (the mint calls this "starburst" today) This isn't too unusual for early modern proofs. Frankly they used the...
I don't have a copy of Noyes early date book so I have no idea what his die states are. Does he have images of the die states in the book or are...
True, and I did consider adding that as a possibility.
That's a large date.
There is a discrepancy in the totals, a small amount of that is probably from the SMS coins, I don't know what accounts for the rest of it.
Yes he could,which means you are going to get a 1908 S, possibly(probably?) with a damaged obv.
You're right it is a gouge. I still like it better.
"When the chip receives a query signal, it generates a long random number which it combines with the ID number; then encrypts the pair. The...
They were simply marked Uncirculated, because they were packaged around 1970/71 and the MS grades didn't come into common use until 1978/79 and...
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