Save your money, I'm more than 99% sure that coin WAS plated when it left the mint.
All of the S mint Lincolns and the 1864 L (He doesn't mention the L) Indian are fakes. Find some slabbed versions of those coins in similar...
I liked at the end "no matter what happens with the economy you know that a year from now the dollar will be there". But will it be worth...
VladD, did you notice that lilith's coin only weighs 3.66 grams?
Could be, I haven't had the chance to look at all the 1795's yet.
It was probably soldered to something at one time. Belt buckel, some other piece of jewelery etc.
There are five varieties of the Lafayette dollar now. An interesting coin, the only one since the 1830 where the dies were not hubbed. Instead...
I wish you hadn't cut off the ANACS slab. I can only see a sliver of the hologram but it doesn't look like one I recognize.
A rather unique explanation http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aWyrjwXoIqA
I don't have pictures of all the 1795's here with me, but this works for all the ones I've compared so far. On the 1794 the terminal leaves of...
Solder is what I'm thinking.
It's purple!
I can't tell what if anything is going on with that coin, but it doesn't really look anything like the original coin.
Grease strikethrough
That's correct.
Planchet problem. Rough surface from worn rollers. If you blow up the pictures you can see the lines go all the way across the coin but most of...
I suspect on the labels they got a batch in that were slightly oversized and they don't quite fit in the recess they are supposed to. (different...
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