Unless you can nail it down to a specific variety known to made at Machins Mills I would think it is just a contemporary counterfeit
Yep scanning resolution has improved so now it can see more even smaller marks. So the number of marks goes up and a coin that would have been...
Actually you can. It's a fake the lettering font is wrong. The M, A, and T should all have serifs (feet) not just be stick figures.
You think that is bad, I bid in auctions in Britain and I am quite glad I don't live over there. First you have a 20% buyers fee. Shipping is...
And the minimum wage was a dollar an hour. Today a lot of entry level people even at places like McDonalds are getting $10 an hour, and you can...
If you do it be sure to strip all the coins with a commercial dip first and a good rinse with distilled water. You have to make sure that all the...
If we had that they wouldn't be low mintage. :) I don't know about that. There are a lot of collectors of Olympic related material. Also...
Great! I'll kick in the other $0.01 and we'll go partners!
The law says that the coins must bear the year in which they were struck. The mint DOES start minting them ahead of time and claims that this is...
Not all of them. One company used a 2X2 size plastic holder, sealed, with a 2X2 plastic ribbon coming out of it that acted as the label. At...
The 1936 dot dime is extremely expensive as well. There are four of the cents known, one business strike and three specimen pieces. There are...
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I'm with numismat, photoshop. It isn't a simple dime pressed into a cent or into glue on a cent because neither image is reversed. But it isn't...
Very nice, you don't see counterclashes all that often.
About the same as one without it. Maybe a little less, especially since it puts the date in doubt.
I hate to say this folks but those "die cracks" are scratches.
Personally I think this is a bit of folklore as well. I do think they were more widely used in the west but I don't really think they were that...
Oh and Bid on that coin at the time for just a common Unc was $60 (Remember no such thing as MS grades at the time, they were either Unc or Gems....
It would also depend on what city you live in. For some reason some cities are coin sinks, the banks can never seem to get enough coin and the...
I wouldn't expect an R-3 to fetch a premium. i don't do halves but I know in the early copper often even R-4's won't really bring a significant...
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