No, I think NGC is more likely. They are the ones who slab brown Ikes and hard pack CC dollars still in the government holders, and recently they...
Horse power for the rolling mill, the screw presses were run by human muscle power to swing the lever arm of the screw. (Horse power for the...
Lettered edge half cent. He said it is roughly the size of a 1730 farthing Our large cent was roughy the size and weight and value of a British...
As a date 1805 is common, and two of the four varieties are common, but it is NOT common in higher grades (AU and up. XF's a fairly tough too.)
According to the Post Office website and international rates links etc found through Avi400's post. In Israel coins are restricted to Registered...
Looks like the obv of S-41 to me. Which obverse do you think it is CappedBustDimes? And while I will agree there are a couple of photo errors in...
Excuse me while I go beat my head against the wall and cry. Ok, I'm back. No, I gotta go cry some more....
Uh, yes. Try 1802/0 half cent or 1820/19 O-101 half dollar. Those come the closest, and when you go to overdates outside the US they can become...
You are correct sir, I was wrong on that point.. I was working from memory and I thought the SG of Mercury was 11.5 OK so the mercury layer as...
It is very unlikely that quarter contains any silver. It is too light to even be coppernickel. It is probably a tin and/or zinc alloy. If it...
I don't think the set with the sticker will have any premium. If it did, you go to your local print shop and have stickers made up and put them...
A steam ENGINE was put into use at the mint in 1817 after the 1816 fire, but it was used to power the rolling mill allowing for the retirement of...
The mintmarks are on the original model that the master hub is made from. The only way you can have a true missing mintmark since 1990 is if the...
I'm thinking overpolished die, the denticals are too strong at the bottom for it to be a misaligned die. I wouldn't think you could almost get...
Nope,think 20 cent pieces
Well one you can create a machine that can open up any type of package that arrives in the mail, put the coins in flips, identify them by...
In the discussion here it is abut the color as it is part f the grade and grade is about the only thing the NGC guarantee covers. Yes technically...
Your coin shows the result of a collar clash. At one time the obverse die was misallingned far enough the the edge of the die that forms the top...
Yes those lumps you see in the N, W, and U were all cause by chips of the die breaking away. Those chips are larger of course. The chipping that...
Nah you can do a good plating job with a glass jar, a few chemicals, and a $5 DC charger. I'm not makin the coin, I'm just electroplating it....
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