Well my indian head cents are complete, my two cents are complete, my silver trimes are complete 1851 - 1862, my nickel three cent lack one piece...
In the picture of the very worn coins the one at the bottom left is a half penny of George II, probably from the 1730's.
PCGS does guarantee attributions, but they don't attribute that many things. NGC attributes a wider range of varieties but they do NOT guarantee...
In the case of the US coins the "look" is good enough. If you are familiar with the the early US coinage you know immediately that the 1795, 96...
I'm sorry to say, those are all counterfeits.
Numbers description of how this could happen is correct, I only have a problem witha small part of it. The sheet of paper has a margin that...
He wasn't suggesting putting a fractioal amount of gold in the coinage he was talking about fractional reserves, having say $1 in actual physicl...
In 1963 a 14-D in Fine was listed in the graysheet at $50 bid. In in 1963 $50 was a LOT more money than it is today. So yes it was worth doing...
Good use for Chinese counterfeits.
Yes some are, and it can also vary by mail carrier. Some are very good at scanning and updating, others are hit or miss. Also remember that the...
What I'm curious about is what dental school is teaching its students to make fake gold coins.
I think the shape of the 7's are wrong.
I don't know. Maybe violation of the Hobby Protection Act.
True, but the mint doesn't get to make those decisions. Every single new coin design has to be debated and passed as a law by Congress, a pracess...
There is a good image of the reverse, it's in the body of the auction description. Offhand I think it is real, it has been cleaned and I think...
I'd still be curious what page you were looking at because there weren't 292 proofs made that year either.
Normally NCS won't send it on to NGC if they don't think it will grade. So if NGC saw it NCS thought it would grade, and NGC thinks NCS...
Initially most of the people turned in their gold because they felt it was thier patriotic duty to do so. (Kind of like after the income tax was...
No I don't either, but if I did I'd be using it to buy old copper. As a matter of fact that's WHY I don't have a couple grand laying around. I...
The middle east counterfeit gold from the 1950's and 60's were density accurate because they actually used the proper weight and fineness of gold....
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