It's a planchet lamination. Above the E the lamination is still there but below the E part of it has flaked off the coin and fallen away. On a...
It's either a N-2 or N-40 (both used the same obv die.) Neither variety is particularly rare, and it is a repunched 1.
I have read the complaint, but not the exhibits yet. So far I think the plaintiffs case is weak.
Also the mint does not melt down cents because they don't come back to the mint. The Fed ships OUT more cents than come back from the banks and...
I guess you've been out of touch. There are going to be six more quarters in 2009. five territories and DC.
No!
Well it DID die in committee, but then Congressman slipped it into the "last minute got to pass it because we want to go home for Christmas and...
Come on, he's already designed three of the state quarters. (RI, NY, and Maine is obviously based on his design.) Tht must explain there is so...
Mike is right, other than the rolls the US mint sells directly to the public, they ONLY way you can know for sure what is in an unopened roll. . ....
I think it is probably an impaired proof. Notice in the edge view shots, the reeds on the 1861 extend all the way to the top an bottom rims ad...
Daniel, I think you are starting to get better with faces. You still have a way to go, but you are definitely getting better.
They are referring to how separated the doubling on a doubled die is, and it really doesn't seem to mean anything at all. I see a lot of doubled...
Half right, Strings just makes the paper wrapers, ut the FRB's don't do their own rolling anymore. It is typically hired out to the armor car...
The slab oldcrowcritter posted looks good to me as well.
Lets see if you count all the different designs, compositions, and surface finishes that are POSSIBLE, you get 32 different cents 5 different...
Another good possibility is that these President sets are the leftovers after they break up regular or silver proof sets for the state quarters....
That's because if it had been a bill or an amendment to a bill that was open for debate it wouldn't. Instead it was slipped in, basicly at the...
The problem I have with it being an unplated planchet error is what crescent shaped object was stuck to it to keep that area from being plated? A...
I have heard and seen these before, but they are normally gold plated. It was a private "commemorative" marking the resumption of legal gold...
I'm not sure if I have seen an NPG slab or not. Do you have a picture? With over 150 companies so far it is hard for me to keep all of their...
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