The notary seal also makes a impression in the paper. Notary seals can come as either a hand squeeze type seal or as you mentioned the older free...
Buyers have become so dependent on the TPG's that they can't make their own decisions anymore. It makes their brain hurt.
It's an error in Krause. You will note they show the bronze and the copper plated zinc both being the same diameter and the same weight. But...
Typically these people who come through the hotels like that have a permit to buy but they don't have a license for resale.
I wrote the following before I read the second page of the thread and saw that 900fine had already explained it. S-41 die state VI The reverse...
Looks like copper, too round, font is wrong. It's a copy and I'd say it's a copy of an oak tree. It definitely isn't a pine tree.
You can do a better job filling it in using a pencil eraser. Just repeatedly press the eraser down on the coin. Back before the advent of...
If it's a 2003 P it won't be a proof. And a better question, as always, is what does it weigh? If it is really silver it will be noticably...
Looks natural. As for the name, before thise series neither the dime or the half dime had the denomination on them at all. When the coins were...
I don't have any, I don't collect elongateds. But I know one of the early ones, sorry don't remember too much about it I know it has a salmon on...
Simple answer, the five cent piece is about the only pre-1960 coin you can still get in circulation. About the only other is the 1959 cent....
Most likely what you have is one of those silver plated state quarters that the TV people have been selling for the eleven years. There are...
SOME elongateds ARE rare and extremely expensive.
They early proofs were NOT always made with special dies. In face on one of the early proof large cents it can be shown by die states that a...
I think you are confusing it with the copies made of the 1776 Continental Currency dollars. They WERE restruck in 1876 and 1976 (plus other...
There is also a member of one of the local clubs I belong to who is legally blind (white cane and everything). He does have some sight though and...
In this case it can't be the result of a scrape from a coin counter because such a scrape would have torn through the copper plating where the 1...
The "lines" on the reverse are the result of die wear from the outward expansion of all the planchets struck before.
If the cent is fed in so the design is impressed on the reverse the date and mint usually are visible. I don't know if they have automated...
A variety of mints? Like what more than two? :)
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