I liked the article (Your articles are encouraging me to get back into the samples slabs more). The multi-coin Luncheon slab I would catalog...
Beef is wrong. There are no examples of doubled dies from hub doubling in the early or middle dates that I know of. There are some in the late...
No I think there is probably enough there to attribute.
There was probably some type of contaminant on the blank (oil or maybe wax) that prevented that area from being plated.
Unless your local shop specializes in colonials the chances are they probably won't have a clue about what the attribution is and their opinion of...
They are not very scarce but they are popular so they sell for more than another variety of similar rarity would sell for.
Now you have asked a much tougher question. I would want better, larger pictures, and oriented properly before I would take the time to try and...
The one thing I would add is: Learn to grade yourself and use those skills even if you are buying from one of the major grading services because...
Social Security was never intended to be something for people to retire on and depend on for their retirement. It was intended to be a supplement...
If the book said "Including proof issues" I would expect it to have holes for both the business strike and proof strike for those that produced...
I think he is probably right about it being a die clash, but die clashes happen all the time and are very common. The clash is no reason to have...
It was not an error, that guy has been running that auction over and over. He lifted the picture and description from a legitimate auction and...
The WTC coins and bar did come for the vaults in the WTC complex but NOT from under the two towers themselves. There were thousands of coins that...
Yes they are US Legal tender coins are they are illegal to counterfeit here in the US just like any other US coin.
The four Thailand coins are 5 Baht Y# 219 (top two coins), the bottom right is a 1 Baht Y# 183, and I think the bottom left is a 5 satang Y# 72a
When the dies are hardened they are heated then quickly quenched. This leaves them with slightly roughened oxidized surface. It is this...
It is NOT an 1804 large cent. The 1804 comes from just one pair of dies. Two things I saw that immediately told me it wasn't an 1804, on the 04...
Modern fantasy piece.
And that shell case composition is the same composition as was used from 1963 to 1982.
What do most people do when they run out of closet space? Do they build the addition or get the clothes back into circulation by donating them to...
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