Because business strikes don't normally have proof-like fields.
The problem with the errors in Krause and the fact that more keep creeping in can be traced to short staffing. F&W Publications that owns the...
The concept of a thickness standard for a struck coin is kinda meaningless since it varies at every point on the coin. Also twp planchets of the...
It is an S-70. Has nice detail, color is off, some corrosion, I wonder if that area at 10:00 could be a planchet defect? I wonder because the...
Even if you don't do the other two boxes of nickels that is 10,000 coins or your personal allowed quota for the next 833.33 years.
If you are talking about US tokens good for "services", then no there aren't. There are some for Brothels in other countries. Now some of the US...
Many OPA tokens yes, many MV tokens no. I think the pices they are asking on ebay are probably too high. When I started collecting OPA tokens...
You would be surprised how few coins being tossed aside into drawers, jars etc or just lost it takes to remove ALL of the coins from circulation....
Request refund first, if he won't refund then open a dispute. If the dispute doesn't work then do the chargeback.
A genuine "1805" US silver dollar does exist. It was discovered in the 1930's and was authenticated by Bolender. It sold for thousands of...
30.6 mm
Nickel plated cent. Enough nickel there to make it weakly magnetic. Several possibilities, to fool someone, for use in jewelery, someone...
So in 1998 they had almost $2.5 million in an endowment for building that memorial, half of it collected from coin collectors. I wonder how much...
And that doesn't include your shipping and insurance to get it there. I've never understood that. Errors are a specialized field and those who...
Give it time. This is something new and this is the first item they have used the counter and end date on. If it works out well they many start...
The problem is some people WANT to be treated like kings or gods.
You need a lot of imagination to see it on any of the 14/3 overdate buffalos. Typically the only thing that shows is a little "nub" at the top of...
This is a die struck fake. Probably from cast dies. I;m also not convinced they used a 1943 cent for the original model. i don't think the...
If you mean the marks on the side with the head those are simply marks on the original planchet that were not wiped out by the strike. The...
#3 is a piece of copper that has been squeezed between two large cents (I think late middle dates 1835 - 39) #1 I'm thinking from the crudeness...
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