After the law was passed and the non-US coins ceased being legal tender there was still a shortage of small change in the western US and the...
Nope, the Carter/Contursi 1794 dollar is currently the most expensive. It sold to the Cardinal Foundation for more than the 1933 double eagle...
Never in the same spot as compared to what?
As the coin is heated, a bubble of gas trapped between the copper and clad layer tries to expand but can't because the clad layer is still too...
There has just recently been a price guide published for the Conders. The last good price guide published for the was Schwer back in 1983. I...
For the Conder tokens you need Dalton and Hamer's Provincial Token Coinage of the 18th Century. There is a free PDF version on-line you can...
Some projection TV systems used Fresnel lenses up to four or five feet across. Most of those videos seem to be using ones of two feet or less and...
Well if it did turn out to be something special you have already reduced it's potential value by 50% or more. Well there are two thing first an...
Like I said on the Coin Community forum there is no actual 69/8 so any of the repunched 69's could be considered "legitimate" as far as I'm concerned.
Say "Thank you, Elizabeth Jones" At least for the obverse.
Very true, my last trip was Louisville Ky to Dallas TX via Chicago
The mint does these surveys from time to time but they don't send them to everyone.
13 what? Wilson dies? Considering they only struck about 6000 Wilson "dollars" I doubt there would have been 13 dies. The probable reason the...
It's actually easier to see the crack where it come up from the bases of the letters through the ERI and especially through the center of the C.
I haven't seen a copy of that on the market in years. It works but it takes some getting used to, and it has helped in the cherrypicking of some...
If you contact the companies they can probably tell you if they are archival or what they are made of.
And then the collectors would complain that the mint changed the rules and ruined the aftermarket and cheated because they got all those early...
They could but that would eventually break things up too much. When they added the page for the Bicentennials that broke it up so all the...
Fake, without a doubt.
1830 N-4 mid die stage which makes it a large letter. There is only one small letter reverse and that in N-6. On the small letter (actually med...
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