Environmental damage. The weight is too high to be a missing layer and way too high to be two missing layers. Plus the strike is way too good to...
As mentioned the half is post mint damage. On the first cent die cracks on Lincoln's head are not uncommon. The 1985 D is a form of die...
Why? Marketing is competitive, especially in groceries. If someone went through and raised all their prices due to the elimination of the cent...
I've had over a thousand transactions on eBay and only a few ptoblems and in every case it was not the post offices fault. It was due to poor...
When banks order coins the Fed fills the order using first circulated coins, then older uncirculated coins and then lastly newly minted coins. So...
Depending on how they are stored coins can tone even in government packaging. and mint set coins can have fingerprints on them.
Well I would think the first part of the statement would mean ( or seems to say) that it has an unusually heavy plating.
The cent has die deterioration which is causing the "arch". Very common with no value. It also has a slight misaligned die but not far enough...
It has to be considered because it seems to be of extreme importance to those who desperately want to keep the dollar note. Those who see the...
If you really think it might be struck on a 40% silver planchet you need to do a specific gravity test on it. A weight test won't do because...
No, they used to burn the paper but now due to concerns over air pollution they landfill them. And I'm sure they would prefers the twos even...
Old school? The only designs we have ever gotten from an open design contest are some of the early state quarters, most of which are pretty bad....
Drago is correct, the number of required coins is not as high as they claim it would be because they WOULD ramp up production of the twos. And...
Every time they have issued a new dollar since 1971 and especially since 1979 there has been discussion of the dollar coin replacing the dollar...
That is common practice in my neighborhood, delivery confirmations are scanned before starting their route, or at the end of the route. Even if...
They commemorated the completion of the canal, this would commemorate the centennial of the completion, not the same thing. Still a little odd to...
Hmmm, new error classification Ebay doubling: To make a large snipe bid and win an item that isn't worth it causing a big jump in the final...
There is no brockage on the OP coin The OTHER coin would have a partial brockage but the OP coin would be better described as Double struck with...
I'm still thinking retained cud since the rim is still present in the cud area.
I never got into the Porcelain notgeld. It didn't really circulate as was sold more as a for collectors only deal. Same as with a lot of the...
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