What if you don't care if your heirs get a big windfall profit from your coins? If they get full value great, if they don't well I don't care,...
So if we find a ridiculous auction on eBay at a high price that means we should not buy there either? Why do you say that? You can get toned...
Don't forget South Dakota, same person on both sides. (same goes for the New Jersey quarter and the Lincoln Memorial cent but those are a little...
Defacing or destroying coins is perfectly legal. (Defacing CURRENCY so as to render it unfit to be reissued IS illegal.)
No it is a cointhat is struck between (Usually*) the anvil die and a coin stuck to the face of the hammer die. It results in a coin that has a...
The venezuela coins were 1876 and 1877 not 1887 and there were no mint contracts for coins or planchets for foreign coins that would have...
On the shield nickels you can't depend on the squared edge to identify a proof. Identifying proofs from business strikes on this series is an...
I like the concept of the Gettysburg and Antietam halves, only problem is they won't circulate. To me a commemorative is supposed to get people...
Really? What happened in 1987 that I missed? :)
Well a petition probably won't do anything since the law supersedes it. If he really wanted to do something about it he should have introduced...
I would be more inclined to put the blame for that on Amos Press and Coin World. The main thing that prevented the start up of the scam artist...
That still wouldn't fit. Nickel strip run through the cent blanking press would result in planchets that weigh 4.02 grams. Not if you rolled the...
I can think of two possibilities, one would be a finned rim, the other would be a collar clash. If it is a finned rim the outer side will be...
That's true, but only about 1 in 100 Americans care about whether or not they own one. So that means not everyone who wants 300 of them can have...
Nothing special, but the P mint coins are mostly distributed east of the Mississippi so about the only way they get out to the west coast where...
So was it CuNi or bronze? From the left side weakness I was thinking CuNi. (The rounded bust comes on both.)
A brockage error is the same size and shape as a regular coin. It will easily pass through the same equipment, counters, rollers, etc.
I wish they wouldn't cale them struck on foreign planchets unless they can explain where the planchets came from. The mint only struck or made...
If it has a tiny R counterstamp then it is almost certainly a replica. Before the hobby protection act some companies used the R instead of COPY...
You could add the 1870 and 1876 without too much trouble but then everything else after that is tough.
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