Nice enough, looks lightly cleaned and PF-55. Appears to have very slight wear especially on reverse.
I get roughly the same answers as jcz1 If the current ASE is 2.98 mm thick a 3 inch 5 oz coins would be between 4.13 and 4.23 mm thick (3/16...
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Forget the time capsule, what you and is just cash and constant careful investing. If you can average 5% per year you'll end up with $8 million,...
What I have done in similar situations is to offer to examine the coins and tell them what an honest dealer would most likely give for them, but I...
31 mg is just about 1/1000 of an oz so at 11 cents that would make gold $110 an oz. Methinks someone misplaced a decimal point. Try $1.10 worth...
Out of curiosity, did they show any that were different numbers or were they "1 of 1500"? The reason I ask is because PCGS did something similar...
Liberty Coin got in trouble over their gold and silver "coins', the paper warehouse receipts were not an issue and as far as I can tell do not...
The elimination of the large cent and the introduction of th small cent in 1857. Before that time there were almost no collectors in the US, but...
Planchet striations from worn rollers combined with a poor strike that failed to fully fill the recesses of the die. Not at all unusual, and...
I think I m currently a member of some 13 clubs. Five local clubs, three state organizations, one regional, four national. Plus three online...
Looks like it could be incomplete fill from a slightly weak strike. Those areas did not fill and come into contact with the die so they show a...
I don't have a Charleton handy but another possibility might be that it's a reference to the rotation of the dies, one being coin rotation and one...
You've got a fairly good grasp on it. Double Strike - Coin was struck twice by the die(s) double die - coin was struck by two dies (all coins are...
When I first looked at his pictures on the other thread I dismissed it because they were poor and didn't really seem to show anything. For some...
Not chrome, Chromium is not magnetic (but chromium dioxide is.)
I think it does look like it could be struck on a nickel planchet. Before I spent money to send it out for slabbing though the first thing I would...
Barely sticks or "jumps" to the magnet? If it barely sticks it probably has a heavy nickel plating.
Starburst is the mints name for it. We just call it die wear, die fatigue, just heavy flowlining.
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