edge lettering is applied in a second step after striking
Most likely there was a 1807 50c in the submission as well and they got the labels mixed up. I've seen that happen before. In the Heritage sale...
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The ANA grading standards committee formed in 1977 and the book was published in 1978. ANACS began grading in 1979. PCGS didn't come along...
Sounds like a good place for it to stay stuck. True, but they don't want to have to deal with those things, they are difficult, controversial,...
And then an acetone rinse to remove the water from the boiling distilled water rinse. :)
Even the few that do carry a premium over the others are a retail premium. Trying to sell them to a dealer is not likely to get you much if any...
Nice to know that most MS slabbed Morgan dollars that grade less than MS-65 don't actually exist.
It would fall under "Fair use" IF he gave credit for the source of the images. (mentioned where the images came from) Burton Strauss is quite...
That isn't always true. Case in point is the gold kennedy the OP was talking about. Less than a month after they came out they could be...
I can so seldomly find anything at shows anymore that the main reason I now attend is to visit with collectors and dealers I've known over the years.
19Lyds is right about the coin being within tolerance. Spec on a 40% silver Ike is 24.59 grams +/- .984 grams so they could weigh anywhere from...
Yes they could. These were big heavy coins and they got banged around a lot at the mint in the presses/tote bins/riddlers/counting machines, and...
I'd probably be willing to spend $10 to $12 for it, that's all.
The proof sets before 1955 came is small square boxes. After 1955 they were in the flat pliofilm holders. The 1955 sets came both ways and the...
I've never heard them called "flat packs" either, but in the early years of slabbing they were sometimes referred to as tombstones.
Actually they didn't. The original coca-cola that was discontinued was sweetened with sugar, when they "brought it back" it was sweetened with...
Think about that. If they get it right 99.9% of the time, that still means 500,000 piece of mail getting mangled every day. 99.99% of the time...
Nope. There is no one over them forcing them to grade to ANA standards. Each of them has their own set of standards that they use for grading....
What mint? That isn't the cancelling pattern that the US Mint uses so they probably aren't US coins.
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