Actually if you move it two places you can KEEP the cent, nickel, dime, and quarter. The cent will now have the purchasing power of today's...
I was wrong about the authors name. I was working from memory and I confused Edkins (Coal Scrip) with Eklund (German notgeld tokens)
There are only two varieties of 1795 draped bust/small eagle dollar. Neither of them come with that heavy arc crack from star 1 to star 13. And...
Is this the same stary as the one a month or so ago, or has someone else inherited two wheelbarrows full of gold worth 7+ million?
There is probably some extra demand because it is the only realistic variety to get the large 8,stars, and letters. You aren't going to get the...
It probably isn't mentioned much because it is not needed to identify or confirm the variety. You see those script S type 8's that is all you...
To me they are. A COIN is issued with the intent that it circulate as money. If they aren't intende to circulate they are just glorified...
They were rounds until the government won their case against Norfed, I still don't see them as being counterfeit coins, just privately made coins...
It looks like there may be something going on there but I'm just not sure.
Under the right environmental conditions it is not unusual for clad coinage to discolor to a brown state. That has happened here and then the...
It definitely isn't the doubled tiara that John Anthony referenced, but it does appear to be a similar doubled die. Whether or not it has it's...
It had better be repunched, all 1828 N-10's have the 18 repunched. The repunching on the 8 is not as dramatic but can be seen at 3 o'clock on the...
And the N-7 is still an R-7 with the 8th known specimen, a VG-8, being cherrypicked just a couple weeks ago. N-7 is a proof only issue with six...
Found the post I described above with the 1901 indian head cent and the pictures of the encasement http://www.cointalk.com/t218392/
Did you miss the part about 90% are sold by the government as nothing but bullion That leaves the other 10% as being sold as something more than...
The coin is placed in a blank disk with a hole the same size as the coin. Then the DISK is struck with a die that has a hole in the center. The...
Used the blank albums and get a labeling machine such as a Brother P-touch. They can make nice printed labels on a clear tape that will pretty...
Hard to say but I think it could be where a lamination peeled away, or it could be struck through a lamination from another planchet. PMD is a...
At least there is one good coin in the bunch, the 1973 which was a mint set only coin not made for circulation.
Yep removed from an encasement. And nickel encasement, while less common than cents, are not that unusual, Encasements can be found with many...
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