Nope, they do blank their own nickels, dimes, quarters and half dollars from strip provided by suppliers but cents and bullion products have the...
Yes they are rationing. They have orders for more coins than they have planchets to produce them (The suppliers of the planchets have not been...
They can't follow because they lead. Fake ANACS slabs first appeared in March of 2007 and fake NGC slabs in August 2007. The fake PCGS slabs...
What grade is that a quote for? I've seen XF's that would have a hard time meeting that standard. On all of the other seated liberty designs I...
Unless one of these days someone finds one of the 2000 S business strikes they made when they were doing test runs in 1999.
There is only one true design error on the coin. The olive branch and arrows are in the wrong talons of the eagle. The arrows are in the eagles...
I would say it is crystallization from the annealing of the planchets. Actually the woodgrain and the crystal patterns seen here have similar...
That's the real reason why they took Monticello off the nickel for two years, they were making it ADA compliant.
The pictures leave a lot to be desired but I'd have to say that I don't have warm fuzzy feelings about either one of them.
Nah, mine didn't have the covered spine and corners, but almost all the gilt was gone from the front cover.
If this is supposed to commemorate the Battle of Baltimore and the shelling of Fort McHenry/star spangled banner, they've got it coming out two...
Do they have any more copies? By the way, be gentle with it. Pages will be falling out of it eventually (very poorly bound) but you can delay it...
That's just the point. Other than the 1806/5 quarter and half NONE of the other US overdates are on a die that was previously used in a...
I did better on the price on mine, but yours is in better condition. Got mine as a library discard for 10 cents. Unfortunately I have no idea...
I am the WRONG person to ask that question of. I am a VEHEMENTLY anti-slab collector and I hate the entire concept of thrid party grading...
The Jewett reference is Mistrikes and Oddities in the LincOLn Cent and Other Coin and Currencies by E G Jewett. The fourth edition was published...
The mint has not struck coins for other countries since 1984 (Except the 2 Kronor piece for Iceland in the Lief Ericson set.) Being struck on a...
Possibly cleaned, I don't like to discuss cleaning or color or even grade from photos because they can hide too much and I have no way of knowing...
It wasn't that long ago that coins like that were going begging at shows for $2.50 each. Without the holes!
Actually there were very good reasons. They had dies on hand at Philly that had already had the S punched into them when the decision came down...
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