That 1/10 fanam piece is only about 2 mm across or about half the size of that 1/96th stater.
As mentioned it has type 2 hair so it can't be S-160 or 161. Type 2 hair with a small 8 is going to put it somewhere from 172 to 187. wide...
So we have the Crusades, the inter-kingdom warring, the constant wars with France, the conquering of India and subjection of their native...
Considering the press would have been running at 13 coins per second, and almost certainly did not stop the instant the die cracked, the chances...
You're all assuming that it was the small motto. There has been no evidence presented one way or the other and since the large motto is MUCH more...
Grease filled die, and if you look closely you can see that traces of the mintmark are visible. It does look like there are some traces of some...
Why not? Just because every coin in a series has wear doesn't mean we can select the best of these worn coins and declare them to be "Mint...
So I guess you are also offended by US coins for what they did to the indians, the Japanese americans during WWII, and slavery. Offended by...
I think it is more of "Please don't try an make up some cutesy name for it" Everybody out there tries to make up some name for every die crack,...
Why overdate? Well for one thing the law DID require that the coins bear the date of the year they were struck. Overdating an unused...
How is the weight? I don't see anything that jumps out at me and says it's a fake, but the weight of the counterfeits was typically well below...
I don't see anything that would make me think it is a fake, and after blowing up the image I don't see anything that would make me think it was...
I'm sorry you find us to be rude, we are actually one of the friendliest general groups on the net. You also need to understand our skepticism....
Looks like two cent planchets, a nickel planchet, and a quarter planchet.
I think it a dropped D from GOD. It is too narrow to be a dropped letter from the mintmark and none of the other D's are small enough.
Well it's a die crack and cracks are common. The chipping makes it noticeable and so kind of interesting, but it isn't of great interest, more of...
Eduard, your method is similar to the same way I do it, but I know of various features that tend to vary considerably through the series. For...
So did I, and I don't consider myself to be that old. And Art was still active up until about twelve years ago. He only died seven years ago.
What I see in that comment is that contact and bag marks won't make it less than MS but wear, which it has, does. Contact marks and bag marks are...
If it went down in New Jersey territorial waters he may find the state claiming part or all of the find. Florida is like that. Under there law...
Separate names with a comma.
