It's Maple Leaf's or possibly Maple Leafs. It wouldn't be Maple Leaves because in this case Maple Leaf is the equivalent of a proper name.
NCLT = Non-Circulating Legal Tender Coins with legal tender status but which are issued with no intention that they will ever be used in...
Yes it will just be a different portrait of Lincoln. Roger Burdette is a member of the CCAC and he has discussed this on the NGC forum.
Government mints and contract mints that issue the tons of NCLT that clog up the catalogs LOVE collectors like you. :)
I doubt that. The darker the toning the more silver from the surface has been chemically altered. By the time it gets this dark the surface is...
16 dolphins, 8 obv 8 rev Now why are the dolphins on the coin? :)
They still have Sinclair gas stations!? They probably got tired of getting stuck with a bunch of them so they aren't going to order anymore of them.
What, we're giving credit for tonal inflection now? :)
"They" do, the US Mint does not. I first saw things like this back in the late 1980's. Silvertowne was making them.
Well it has a nice cud on the rev and the coin has been burnished.
It is definitely polishing.
Yes the relief has been reduced several times since the first memorial came out in 1959.
When banks order coins from the Fed they get what the Fed has on hand in this order, circulated coins first, if they are out of circulated coins...
It is well circulated and it is probably one of the common ones so $8 retail is probably pretty close. If it was the popular "spoot" variety it...
I agree with you completely.
Legal money, coins made by the government for use as money. They meet the weight, size, alloy, and design as specified by law. Legal tender on...
I can believe an indictment, but if they were indicted for selling counterfeit coins for a profit that was a mistake. If they are lucky enough to...
As I have mentioned before where I live you can't pay your taxes with cash (legal tender), checks or credit cards only (both not legal tender)...
Problem is it isn't the easiest book to locate and if you are interested in just US coins it is a little disappointing because it only lists a...
What I see on the so-called doubled die looks more like split plating.
Separate names with a comma.