The date digits were punched in by hand, but not individually, they were punched in via a four digit punch. There may be a couple of exceptions...
Actually he would because that would be illegal under yet another law which makes it illegal to deface US currency in such a way as to render it...
Yes I'm familiar with Boggs. i also know he has been arrested for this several times and has had much of his art confiscated and never returned....
The only time weight is close to a definite test is when the result is well off tolerance. cpm9ball gave you the weights of the Morgan, Peace and...
It also looks a whole lot like the medal they used to put in the souvenir sets. (Not mint sets, the souvenir sets that they used to sell in the...
Great you got lucky!. Oh and in the future have them ship it via the USPS (registered if it is very valuable or a non-replaceable item. It is...
Also keep in mind the TPGs will grade AU58's with minimal wear in MS-63 holders.
And if you are going to try to be accurate to THREE decimal places, you will probably need a scale accurate to preferably four decimal places, and...
Fake coin, probably not. Coin, real or fake in a fake slab Definitely if I can afford to. I need them for my reference collection.
This is old news to oldtimers. Even PCGS tactfully announced this years ago. I believe it was page 19 of the first edition of the PCGS grading...
Checked Coinfacts and they list the tolerance as 6.2 grams which is seriously wrong. So I checked the tolerance for the one cent bronze and it is...
Once they are rusted they are already damaged. But nothing will remove that rust without causing further damage. Since thecoins are already...
Got an unattributed S-76 in a slab huh. (Since you said R1 and R5 I'm assuming it's not an S-80. Those are the only two I can think of that come...
Probably not and I don't believe they would work at 70. 17.5 mph would work though. The problem is if they are set for 35 they are set so that...
Thickness of the rim is a function of the pressure of the strike. The higher the pressure the better struck up the edge will be and the higher...
The first section of that law has nothing to do with "fraudulent intent" so that's a red herring. So if the Chinese were to come over here and...
those pictures are so bad I wouldn't even try to attribute the coin from them so I will take your word that it is an S-258. But they are good...
At the KY state show today generic 1/10 oz silver rounds were going for $4 apiece. I would expect a US Mint 1/10 oz ASE to be at least that much...
A gold fractional dollar die would be about half the diameter of a dime. An 1845 hard times token die would be just a little smaller than a half...
They are in the state in which they left the mint, Daniel Carr's Mint. Mint State has no reference to WHICH mint they left. Has nothing to do...
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