Old worn out dies. The die has been crumbling around the letters.
No information on the 5 oz pieces on the website yet.
Mints website for subscription for the 2010 mint set still says Unlike circulating coins, uncirculated coins are struck on specially burnished...
Did you use the enlarging tool? (you can enlarg it at least three times) When you blow it up it becomes an obvious fraction with the denominator...
Fell for the old revived thread trick. (Said with a Don Adams accent.)
Years ago you would sometimes find more than one mintmark punch used on a given years coins but I don't believe that has been true since the...
If you are identifying that as S-66533, (top of the page right hand column) it says it's a 1/4 D
Attractive tokens. The French pieces are a lot harder to find than the German ones, but there are a lot fewer of them. The Lamb book if the only...
I think it may also refer to the period of the portrait typically used on the British coins. QEII has had several different portraits used during...
The 1966 catalog by Lamb listed around 613 different municipal issuing authorities and around two thousand different varieties. The Lamb book...
After looking at it I am 99+% convinced it is a modern cast fake.
I didn't say I had 1902 coins, I said I have a full set of the 1902 CURRENCY. There were no 1902 coins.
Ooh Conders in silver, tough pieces. I've only got three of them. (Most off metal Conders are rare. In addition to my silver I have three in...
John McCloseky has done some pretty good work on the varieties for those coins. Some of it was published in the ANS Coinage of the Americas...
I would not consider it to be pushy as long as I was asked politely and they explained that it was so paypal would release the funds to them. I...
Would a major TPG risk their thirty to fifty million dollar a year business by stealing a submitters two hundred dollar coin? A thousand dollar...
Either a few 1794 cents in the $300 to $600 range or try and find a really cruddy 1793 S-1 for $2000.
Mel Fisher had an agreement with Florida, negotiated ahead of time, to give them 25% of the treasure. Then when he actually found it the State of...
And eBay pulled the auction.
No, the * means exceptional eye appeal, not that it is high end for the grade. No when PCGS announced it as "THE BIG ONE" it was announced that...
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