Think about it. The design will have certain stress points and those points develop die cracks. Since the other years have the same design they...
The government didn't seized that many finished coins and they would not have circulated them. The reason there are so many circulated coins is...
Because the outer edge of the die sees the most metal movement of the planchet metal and deteriorates faster than the areas closer in. So the...
Yes, but the mintages are also much lower. So even if they produce errors at the same rate there will still be many fewer errors available.
Beginning in the 1840 the Mint began using four digit logotype punches for he dates. Typically by the 1850's and later they would use the same...
I can understand them not having mintages of the varieties, but after 32 years still not knowing the final mintage of the silver bicentennials has...
Mark, I reformatted the survival information in a Word document and emailed it this morning.
Probably not, and odds are fairly good that if you gave the coin to that grader next week he wouldn't either. Even the professionals at the...
I'll agree there. I work at the local hospital in the admissions area. This hospital has been around for 106 years, admissions is open 24/7....
Problem is that is illegal HERE. They fake ours, no problem. We fake theirs, we go to jail.
A couple tiny black carbon spots (not porosity) on a Good Lincoln is not going to keep it out of a slab. You're going to have to have a...
No they weren't ripped off. No one held a gun to their head and made them bid, and no one lied about the coin or hypes them up. If they had no...
First of all the numbers don't MEAN anything. In most fields a number implies a measurement. This is bigger or better than that because we can...
One the value of a cent then having the purchasing power of a dollar today was for when the cent was introduced not sixty years later when the...
No insults intended, but whenever I see these comments about "I've got a bunch of coins, how can I check them for rare errors?" I compare it to...
In Kevins pictures the top one does show a polish lines (and a few flowlines), the bottom one shows mainly flowlines but there is one polish line...
I think that figure is too high. I've seen 85 - 90%. I'm right handed, right eye dominant, but read with my left eye. (I typically close my...
What I See is worth maybe $45, that is assuming that "lincoln cent" is actually another silver round. Current bid $262. I don't think we need to...
The problem comes when you added in the part about the medals. The coins aren't too bad but the medals could probably run into the hundreds of pieces
Does it HAVE to be silver?
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