That's just die wear.
Let's put it this way, what you are describing can't happen on a 1979 cent. The date is part of the master hub. In order for it to be reversed...
You have a valid point as well, just try rephrasing the question to "What would be a fair price to pay for a group like that?" That allows an...
Dan's collection is the most complete set ever assembled, and likely the most complete set that ever will be assembled. He has 354 of the 355...
I don't know Toad, I keep leaning toward C-2.
Sorry duplicate post.
Because if he mentions a price and some self appointed judge decides that he didn't pay enough he then gets criticized and is put on the spot of...
It happens every year. The way it happens at the planchet manufacturers is that when the zinc planchets are plated some of the zinc does dissolve...
I'm with Huntsman, a cashdrawer coin. (Which is a shame because in UNC these were better pieces, but this poor thing has been abused.)
The term misaligned die is a pretty much worthless designation. Technically unless the dies are perfectly centered, they are misaligned. In that...
That area is frequently weak. One, grease seems to like to collect there, and two it is opposite the base of the bust on the other side which...
Mike, I belive bhp3rd was referring to the first and second statements in the original posting, not my response to it. If you assume he was...
I think you just answered your own question.
Thanks GD, I knew it was after the presale bids were coming in but I thought it was done at the beginning of the live sale portion of the auction...
I have they show up as a "great new counterfeit detection tool" every so often and are sold to the "The sky is falling" gold bugs who don't really...
They are typically gold plated hence the connection between the counterstamped date and the repeal of the gold laws allowing private ownership...
But as long as the counterstamp is readily identifiable there is still no need for a either a date on it or the underlying host coin. Yes when...
The nucleous captures the electron which combines with a proton to create a neutron so the number of neutrons increases by one and the number of...
Is the 2009 mint set even out yet?
It's a piece of plastic. They have rediscovered the the coin testing balances of the 19th century.
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