Please consider starting your own thread to discuss this coin (and others from your find). Resurrecting an old thread confuses people who haven't...
Whaddya mean, "trying"? ;) It's just a shame she isn't using a more durable canvas. Say, eggshells.
Heh. My dad's family have been hill folk for centuries (literally, they settled the area in the late 1700s). The old homestead was built before...
That's why I said "unless... tungsten cores". As far as I know there's still no way to actually strike a design into tungsten, so the current...
I'm still hoping to hear back on size/weight. Unless they've gotten the hang of striking smaller coins over tungsten cores, I can't see how you...
So, "base metal" -- do they miss on weight, dimensions, or both?
:eek: Where in the world does THAT come from? I need to know more!
Ah, hindsight: the thinking man's investing tool. ;) (As opposed to "the rich man's investing tool")
Which is the only way you're likely to see me enter a Ferrari showroom. :rolleyes:
That, and/or they don't know what they're doing. A quarter is 91.67% copper, 8.33% nickel; it has two layers of 75% copper/25% nickel bound to a...
Hey, at least nobody's piled in with five pages of gold-bar photos... ;)
Possibly. But more likely, it was just two people putting in bids at the last minute ("sniping"). By doing that, they didn't give you time to...
Okay, now I have a more pressing question -- why were they issuing coins in 1921 with Lord Voldemort's likeness?
Around here, I get 5s and 20s all the time -- ATMs only dispense 20s, and if I feed a 100 into a self-checkout it gives back 20s, never 50s. Some...
And dollar coins last longest of all, because they mostly just hang around in bags in vaults...
In the timeless words of KC and the Sunshine Band, "uh-huh, uh-huh".
And suitcases, and mattresses, and... If a $100 lasts 2.5 times as long as a $1 bill, I'd think that says a lot about the degree of "circulation"...
Hey, I still want to see @kanga's 1877, too... :)
1969, for all its problems, was still blessedly innocent of disco. That didn't hit the fan mainstream until the mid-70s.
Probably not, without photos or descriptive information...?
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