It probably also depends on the popularity of the given variety. I can't speak on bust halves but I know in early large cents there are some R-5...
Ruined it how?
The Penny Arcade he is talking about is a coin counter at a bank. I saw the title and wondered where he found a Penny Arcade, a location of...
I think their estimate of "millions of Euros" is probably way off. Does make you wonder about the wisdom of donating you coins to a museum. Lost...
There is in most of my slabs because I try to get my slabs undamaged. I do have some slabs that have had the coin removed.
A little less Morgan please. (Yes I know, heresy.) You've covered up so much of the view you have defeated the purpose of the photo.
I agree with Zach, the 3.1 weight makes it a copper cent which means someone has probably plated one side of the coin.
It may have been found in a mint bag in 1943, but it clearly happened after the coin was struck which makes it PMD no matter where the coin was...
They found a hoard that amounts to .07% of the Denver mintages and you expect that to have an effect on values?
When dealing with contemporary counterfeits ALL countries have extensive histories of producing them, even if the laws were strict. In the late...
I think we may be seeing glue.
I know of nothing that could cause a die face to warp outward and I've never seen an example of a coin struck with a die face that was warped...
Herbert meant exactly what he said, a transfer of the design through a planchet to the other die over a life time of hundreds of thousands of...
It CAN happen in the shallower raised device areas. (Memorial columns on Lincoln's neck.) When it does the clash tends to be incredibly strong in...
Back before the Standard Catalogs came out the standard references for world coins were Coins of the World 1700 - 1850 by Craig, Coins of the...
I think part of the problem is the coin image has been enlarged enough that it is pixelated, but it is showing evidence of being one token struck...
A 2.5% per annum rate of return, compared to an official 3% rate of inflation and that is before paying storage fees for 32 years. Sounds like a...
The Liberty cap coins were modeled after the head on the Libertas Americanus (sp) medal made in France. The flowing hair is basically the Liberty...
It doesn't happen too often anymore but the way a die "warps" other than by breaking is from improper hardening which allows the die face to SINK...
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