No from looking at the bids (including the automatic bids) the winning bidders max was $15 and was placed a fraction of a second ahead of...
US Business strike 1885 three cent piece mintage 1,000. Non-US I have a Warwickshire token that had a mintage of 48. Going by known piece as...
Date font is wrong. In my case it was the 1 and especially the 3 that caught my eye.
I don't know if they did or not, but a simple weighing should tell you if it is silver or not. Personally I thought from the image in the auction...
The depressed area on the ob seems to have a rougher mo porous surface than the higher area. I would suspect it had something corrosive on it for...
There was no coating applied at the mint to the proofs as far as I know.
I'm not sure it's a clash. And if it is I don't believe it is one of the three mentioned.
That's because it appears to be an HT34. HT31 thru A33 Have Executive Experiment around the turtle. HT34 and the coin from the auction have...
Sure, you want to take all of them off his hands for more than melt price? He'd happily sell them to you instead of the smelter. The thing is he...
There has never been any explanation for the larger star on those years. I have seen very high grade plated NC nickels and I have seen mid grade...
I was considering the possibility of a lettered edge thin planchet. In other words 76a lettering on a 76b planchet. There are a few of those...
Yes but you are the only one who does and you can't prove it to anyone else so it just becomes a regular generic planchet.
Look at the mintages of the regular and silver proof sets and add them together 2009 1,477,967 + 694,406 = 2,172,373 2010 1,103,950 + 585,414...
The USPS has two different classes of insurance under $250 and over $250. The under $250 has no tracking, travels with the regular mail and they...
I have to admit when you asked about representations of Liberty doing different things, I thought of the 19th century equivalent of the hobo...
Navel Jelly is for removal, krylon is for prevention.
Altered surfaces could also be things like artificial toning from the application of foreign substances, or something like puttying or addin oils...
No, because you will go broke and go out of business. Unless you have a good source for buying good coins from little old ladies for pennies on...
You may have extra problems getting them since they announced this will be the last year for the cent. That could result in a lot of hoarding of...
VAM stands for Van Allen Mallis for the two men who cataloged the various die varieties, LeRoy Van Allen and George Mallis. Van Allen is still...
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