Walter Breen Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents 1793 - 1814 Personally one of my favorites is either the 1986 Robinson S Brown or the 1989...
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Article probably doesn't say anything about halves because it was from 1968 and the half dollars, although clad, were still made of silver. While...
The reason the 1999-P was not included in the proof set was because they hadn't struck any SBA's since 1981. The Sac dollar was coming out in...
Attribution is wrong, this is a 254 R-2
Back in the late 60's they did have a couple high speed sorting machines that separated out the clad from the silver. They shut them down in the...
Yes, in 1857 the high price of copper caused them to make the cents smaller. I collect the big ones. There is more of that valuable copper in...
How would you know it means 1993 and not 13, 23, 33, 43, 53, 63, 73, 83, or 03? I know there have been different shank styles to the dies over...
Who said BIN prices have to be justified? The seller can ask whatever he wants. If the buyers don't agree then he won't make a sale. In this...
They are on the EAC website www.eacs.org At the bottom of the homepage is a link to a jpg of the prices realized.
I don't KNOW which is "correct" but I prefer the first method. Determining the area is much more difficult, and to me the term off-center seems...
From the first pictures I thought it looked like a die chip on the mintmark and either PMD or possibly a strike through on the reverse. After...
I do think it is slightly rotated, but not a great deal and the off-center is more important than the slight rotation.
I think it is a slug.
Appears to be post mint damage.
Die deterioration. And the rims on coins are created during the striking of the coin. The upset edge of a planchet is a thickening of the edge...
And it has the same thing on the other side. The zipper pull/jewelry bangle from the early 1970's strikes again.
I think 1803 S-252 is a good possibility.
Actually you were correct the first time. Traditionally coins are identified by their obverse designs. There are only a few cases where common...
New term "Tone doubling", with the quotation marks to indicate it isn't a true form of doubling. Definition: An illusion of doubling caused by...
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