I would say the thickness of the planchet is the key to the a and b designations. The thick plain edge and thin lettered edge coins are actually...
Well 60 million times 5 issues is 300 million or about one third to one sixth the number of quarters produced annually in the five years before...
So open the set and straighten the quarter.
It's been awhile since I've seen a mint production report, but the last time I did, they hadn't even made any nickels so far this year. Has that...
No there isn't. The specific gravity of the 40% silver composition is 107% of that of the copper nickel clad composition. 9.53 vs 8.92 So if...
Reminds me of a "California Prooflike". They were around in the early 1970's. The fields were polished to a deep mirror finish and the devices...
The fake ANACS slabs first showed up in March of 2007. ANACS discontinued the holder style that was being faked around June 2007 and changed all...
I agree the number fonts aren'tquite right, but this is a much better fake than usually seen. Also they have apparently corrected one of the most...
Up through1998 the proof sets were sealed. (Sometimes not well, but they were sealed.) Stating with the 1999 sets they were were no longer sealed...
Just this weekend at the Greater Cincinnati show I happened to pick up a copy of the December 2004 TAMS journal which has a nice attribution guide...
That would be fine if I win an auction from you. Of course you will have to wait while I transfer the money from my checking account to my paypal...
And sometimes they live to regret that position. At the first coin show I ran we caught a guy at a dealers table with 18 of the dealers silver...
If you collect long enough you get a big collection. And if you seriousy love the coins for themselves, and their history and stories, I think...
True but that was in 1815.
Not likely because their guarantee does not cover the original submitter. (Per Ron Guth when he was President of PCGS.)
A picture doesn't mean much. I would be much more interested in a weight and specific gravity test result.
Don't go by color or sound, what does it weigh? And if the weight is correct for a silver quarter I would still want a specific gravity test to...
Yes, the mint does not use the term Uncirculated the same way the numismatic community does (Which makes it bad that they then make the implied...
Where have you guys been? Those came out in 2000 with the first ten state quarters. Sales were bad enough that I don't believe they made any...
The big difference in difficulty of attribultion between things like VAM's, and two cent pieces, and Classic head half cents and capped bust half...
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