Definitely need a better picture because the bottom right corner of the N definitely looks like the notching of a doubled die.
Change that a bit. He wasn't fit to design them but he was a competent engraver, knew how to make designs coinable, and knew what wouldn't work.
No but they were were referred to in Mint Records as dismes until 1837, the same year that DIME first appeared on the half dime and dime. Until...
Pictures do not show the color adequately to make a judgement on that. Rev appears corroded and there is damage to the obv between stars 6 and 7....
She wasn't that bad when she was young (image from 1941) [ATTACH] but even at 42 was wasn't that attractive. This is from 1963 almost six...
Fake, fonts are wrong, casting seam on edge.
Since they aren't being made for circulation and the mintages will be much smaller they no longer have to worry about setting issue dates and...
Probably gold plated over a heavy nickel base plating.
Highly unlikely to be silver as no silver planchet had been used by the mint since 1975 and those were in San Francisco. Since you don't mention...
These things had a weight tolerance of believe it or not .4 grams +/- so it could have weighed as much as 11.9 grams before the hole was drilled....
What do the faces look like?
An example of the reason for this policy are all those BIN's that have popped up over the last few months selling 100 morgan or peace dollars for...
You forgot taxes which is where the rounding would occur. So three cans would be $1.74 with 7% tax (where I am) = $1.8618 rounded to $1.85 and...
Do they do online degrees? :) There are only two dealers I know of in the US that have degrees in numismatics Jonathan Kern has a BA in...
And those patents are about 23 years old now and will expire in just a few years.
I would imagine there were some in the 1950'sand possibly early 60's but probably not too many. Fifty cents was a significant sum back then and...
Unfortunately the weight and specific gravity will probably not help you much. Copper and nickel have almost identical specific gravity and...
Yes, wait until the TPG's go through one of their phases where they are not so paranoid about toning. Don't dip. Worse comes to worse here's a...
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