I see what looks like die chips.
Looks like an elephant stepped on his face and flattened it.
Why? They are just damaged coins with an unverifiable story attached to them. Frankly the whole story could just be made up in order to sell...
You can request his contact information and call him on the phone. (You're a little harder to ignore that way. if the phone number doesn't work...
It is. You can't say they NEVER lose a registered mail package, but the loss rate is MUCH MUCH MUCH lower than any other shipping method....
Make that since 1862. before that there was no Federal paper money so the coins were acceptable. After 1862 paper became the preferred medium...
I'm with Vroomer, more firearms training for that employee.
See my answer in this thread http://www.cointalk.com/t180716/
Who needs more rules than that? Those should be enough to get everybody plastered.
The grading services want to maintain the fiction that it doesn't matter when a coin was graded and that a coin graded in 1986 is not differnt...
No I'm not. I actually like the design, and I think it is probably the best of all the proposed designs. What I am having a problem with is...
I'd call it a F-12, the LIBERTY looks complete with the I being very weak. It does have a light scratch across Liberty's legs.
Technique is more important than the camera. Also optical zoom is good but don't waste your time with digital zoom. Digital zoom works by moving...
I'd say it's not PMD. Being copper plated something that removed the lower part of the T after striking would break through the plating and...
If you have access to a metalworking shop you take a steel plate, make a hole in it very slightly smaller than the cent with slightly tapered...
I didn't look at it until now and it is clearly S-184. The highest wave of hair under the R is too far left and the die chips at the upper left...
Well they did and Mike agreed, lamination with damage to the peeled lamination.
I've seen pictures of a 1973-S proof Ike struck through a dime planchet. Ike's head was perfectly centered on the dime blank. Then there was...
There is no understanding book prices sometimes. For example if you look at all the sellers for the seventh edition (most recent) of the Mint...
Yes I've heard of it. The die was overpolished.
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