Because some people can actually tell if the coin is real or counterfeit on their own without having to have some unknown person passjudgement on...
But you still have the problem that you have to be able to attribute and confirm the varieties of the coins in Heritage's archives. Never trust...
Diameter too small and the weight is wrong. According to Breen diameter should be 40 mm and the weight for the "tin" coins 15 - 18.5 grams,...
Two weeks AFTER the war ended.
Hardly the ultimate. Try the Unc 2008 W 1/2 oz platinum. Total mintage so far 126 coins. For gold how about the Unc 2008 W 1/2 oz gold. Total...
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The thing is that unless the coin IS very rare there are typically plenty of unholed specimens available to satisfy the demand.
This is the line they give us today, and today it is pretty much true, but that wasn't the case in 1964/65. Back then the electrical and magnetic...
I can see the VDB and ther are traces of something below the date but I don't think it is in the right place. I'm thinking what you might have is...
A chain made of gold or silver links of uniform size. Payments could be made by twisting off however many links you needed.
Problem with that idea. In order for the rim to get down in below the lettering of the motto the the coin would have to be tipped which would put...
A lot? An insignificant number considering that represents less than 1% of the mintage from one mint.
Just another chunk of bullion with an olf, but pretty design. Apparently the US reached its peak in the early 20th century and had been a has...
Heritage typically uses NGC.
I have to admit I did consider it back in 2000 when the $25 bags of DE quarters were being purchased by idiots for $1,000 apiece. Empty bags and...
Sometime the alteration is very expertly done and actually looks like it was made that way but usually they are much more crudely done, sometimes...
And for the deeper and clearer lettering you need to letter the edges at a slower speed which means either more machines, space, employees, and...
It was a result of silly counterproductive laws. The first law required that the machines be able to accept them, then almost immediately...
Well they will typically be new canvas bags and sewn shut by an industrial machine. Most people do not have access to the industrial machines to...
Proofs may possibly tone faster because I believe they go through a final cleaning step after striking that the Unc coins do not. This leaves the...
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