Anybody here thinks that might have had a little help from a mint insider?
Intelligent adults exclude about 99% of the buyers on fleaBay...
25c
Probably that too... small boy, Dad's workshop and his allowance...
There are a tiny number of SMS coins that were "found" in a former Mint Director's estate. https://www.pcgs.com/news/1964-special-mint-set-coins
Dumbstruck... $2 bill with some modern canceled stamps sells for $10... I guess people really are going bat-xxxx crazy in quarantine.
Laundr-o-mats also used to put some red coins in when the change dispenser got low (it was the old mechanical one without a out-of-change light)....
It's called "a vice job" as in two coins were pressed together - after they left the mint - in a vice, leaving a reverse impression on each other.
All of them over ~10 years old are available to everyone on the NNP.
You can ASK anything your fool heart wants... did any sell?
Yay! and Ick! Somebody found the change cup that they spilled their coke in last week and decided, "They're dead Jim, I'm a Doctor not a Mint...
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doesn't work on silver... the metal doesn't get work-hardened like copper-nickel does
Grab a 10x lens and look at the one you polished with the microfiber cloth for the scratches... the gunk being moved around will have tiny bits of...
I'm just thinking back to the poor guy punching the mintmark. Must have been Monday and I really hope the week got better... WHAM ... bleep - not...
You might consider a "third hand" and a big lens (there was a guy on the show circuit in N Texas about 3 years back selling individual lenses he...
http://www.error-ref.com/split-plate-doubling/
FWIW, there is a treasury office you can send torn, mutilated, etc. currency to. They'll give full value for (IIRC) 75% of the bill and...
2nd one for the ignore list in 5 minutes...
'nother one for the ignore list ... getting crowded over there. I wonder with all the ego's if it fits on a 2.5" disk or we have to use a 3.5" one.
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