I would think that a coin struck on a type I planchet or blank would have a high probability of being a partial collar or slightly off center....
Come on folks it isn't that difficult. It is real easy to narrow it down to four varieties and at first glance it looks like one but on closer...
You're right it is a tricky one. I know what it is but I won't mention it yet and give others a chance.
No answer from me, I remember that coin.
You aren't dealing with the Hobby Protection Act, you are dealing with US Code Title 18 Chapter 25 sec 487 Whoever, without lawful authority,...
It probably isn't in the SCD book because it really isn't a token or medal. It probably is listed in the bryan Money book but I don't have a...
Have you heard of convection? The convection cells that form in the melt will be enough to keep most of the zinc in solution. You will not have...
Political campaign token for probably the election of 1896. Commonly grouped with other items and collectively known as Bryan Money. One of the...
No, because if they use a coin with clash marks to make their casting mold, the fakes will also have clash marks.
HAD to be canceled? The early mint often sold off old dies as scrap steel without cancelling them. (Few early dies survive though since the dies...
I know he got those images from the PCGS book, but I believe they were originally lifted from the NCI Grading guide.
Stop printing the dollar notes and the number of twos printed will go WAY up.
Interesting attitute. "I don't have to have ethics or follow the rules! I'm a minor" Of course next year you won't be a minor anymore, but people...
I think it could be real. The Blakesley effect does not always appear on legitimate clipped planchets.
This may cause a fall in the value of the 2006 set since it will no longer be the ONLY reverse proof anymore. I remember earlier in the year,...
Yes. Those were the rules that were agreed to when you signed up with eBay. Going outside of ebay like that is a violation of that agreement...
Hobo you are just about right except that the collecting by date and mintmark really didn't begin until around 1909 and didn't really take off...
Coinage dies can be legal to own. Dies for making COUNTERFEIT coins are not legal to own. (That doesn't keep them from being purchased by...
This can cause problems with vending machines Most all of them already can, it is programed into them and is simply a matter of selecting the...
Not unless PCGS took the photos. If they are photos taken by the coins owners and uploaded to the NGC registry then the rights belong to the...
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