Can of gold spray paint.
What's a USUAL nick?
Genuine, just worn and if your look close HALF CENT is still visible.
Yes, Philadelphia would have made both the working hubs AND the working dies that were shipped to Denver. Until 1997 Philadelphia made ALL of the...
Not after, while it is being struck. The planchet starts off slightly smaller in diameter than the finished coin. As the dies are compressing it...
That's usually my line.
How many times have people come on the forums claiming to have an aluminum cent and saying "it FEELS much lighter than a regular cent and it...
Nope, dies (usually) start out fine, then they crack, and then if they remain in use eventually pieces break off the die, die breaks. That is the...
Yeah BIG difference there. And yes are right, a lot of them can't be attributed if less than XF, and even the higher grade pieces can be difficult.
Should have lettered it, would have made it more convincing.
Most likely one of the plated cents (and their name is Legion) that are out there.
The law makes all patterns after 1896 strictly government property and illegal to own. But there are a fair number of them out there in the...
Die cracks not die breaks.
I think more like smallpox. [IMG]
I believe you mean the rim not collar. The collar is a heavy piece of steel that is the third die in the press and it creates the edge of the...
Which isn't too much of a problem unless you are collecting proofs. There are only 9 varieties in the whole series and only two years have more...
From the drawdown rate from that Federal Reserve graph, they have about a 27 year stockpile.
Does this suggest that there may only be two W mint quarter designs this year? (I'm sure they will find the time and capacity) Here we go more...
Well the 2019's were "New and different! Something never done before!" the 2020's are "Again?".
The bad thing is some sucker somewhere will buy it as the real thing. Any idea if they lettered the edge of the planchet before they struck it?
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