If you think that, you're insufficiently cynical to bid appropriately on these sorts of auctions. ;)
Hey, that 1944 looks like it might be a straight-clipped planchet! I'd be interested to see its reverse. Also, welcome to CoinTalk! :)
Yes, you got lucky -- but more importantly, you learned something about the seller: he (she?) doesn't know how to stage lots to maximize bidding....
It looks like the die-polish lines, if present, should come up from the shoulder toward the mintmark. I can't tell whether they're there or not in...
No, that's not what I meant to say. The coin is struck from a "sandwich" with pure copper in the middle layer and cupronickel (75% copper, 25%...
I haven't yet sprung for the Coin World Almanac. For those of you who have, does it give a source for the tolerances? The statutes I've found from...
And to think I erased the part of my original post that said "if I'm right, there'll be a groove around the rim of the coin where the copper got...
I'm surprised nobody else has called out "environmental damage". It looks to me like this coin is etched. I wouldn't be surprised if it is...
Dang, leave a nice 38-D or two for the rest of us...! :)
Yes, all Ikes were clad -- but the silver ones were 40% silver clad (80% over 20%), and their edges look just like that. I can't tell for sure...
https://catalog.usmint.gov/american-liberty-225th-anniversary-silver-four-medal-set-17XD.html?cgid=225th-anniversary-collection#start=1
You would've outbid me, but there's a good chance you'll still come out ahead. If I was getting an itchy BIN finger or had eBay bucks about to...
A rusty 1943-P cent.
That's pretty good, with melt around 12.5x.
Why does the poor guy have two right eyes? :yack:
And no silver at all in 1977 or 1978, IIRC. Now that I'm home on a better screen, I can see that at least two of the 1971 Ikes have no mintmark...
I wouldn't have been a winning bidder, because based on what I can see, I would've priced it as 3 40% halves, 1 90% half, 20 clad halves, and 20...
I haven't listened to a lot of dug 1790s silver coins, but I've seen a lot of cast counterfeits, and I'm pretty sure there are a lot more of the...
Are we allowed to talk about coins taking "S" hits here? :angelic:
Are you saying that there's a buy-sell spread on ASEs and .999 bars, but not on 90%? That's news to me...
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