This can be especially true with copper coins. Copper seems to almost "attract" a film of oil to itself and you never really see a copper coin...
Don't be so quick to condemn the sale of this counterfeit. The British and American counterfeits of this medal had an important propaganda...
Actually I believe the number of Presidents who were Masons is only 15. I checked into it once in response to a claim that al of the Presidents...
One correction York County, Maine
Well fairy tales are supposed to have happy endings.
I got my father started collecting. No one in my family collected, I was a self starter and then infected my father so I would have a funding...
Are they? The official ANA grading standards calls an MS-70 perfect, possible PCGS does as well, but every service including PCGS state that they...
I would call it an indent as well. I said no such thing. All indents are strike throughs, but not all strike throughs are indents. A strike...
Not always. When the overlying planchet overlaps the deep recess area of the die the indent can be deformed and not a regular semi-circle. And...
But the canadian cent had denticals inside a raised outer rim. The subject coin has the "denticals" extending all the way to the edge of the...
Interesting. Doesn't look like MDD. Does look like a doubled die but tilted hub doubling tends to manifest itself near the center of the coin....
Well the OP did say he was in training. Don't worry they'll get him calling them all 70, just give them some time. It takes awhile to stamp out...
All of Carr's coins have been struck, it's the dies that are milled by computer
Sure I will, I'll never be able to buy anything because what I am looking for is either rare enough that they just don't get them in very often so...
Another candidate for hardest, and it is a real short set. Draped bust small eagle half dollars. Only need two coins for a full date set, three...
At that time period dies were not hubbed. The central device would be punched in using a screw press (Since a human arm and hammer would not have...
But you would have to send in the coin still sealed in the holder with the other coins for them to remove inorder to get the mintmark on the...
Struck dimes come out of the press into a hopper. Hopper is wheeled over and dumped at packaging but a couple dimes get stuck in the seam or...
It is a N-5 making it an R-3, not a tough variety.
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