If the coin is laying flat in the acid, as it eats the metal bubbles of hydrogen are formed that come up from underneath. They tend to rise up...
Sometimes square (with rounded corners) and other odd shapes were used so that the largely illiterate population using them could tell the...
If they are supposed to start production in less than two months they've probably already selected the designs. Just no press leaks yet.
Why not? After al,l it costs the bank more than the face value of the box for them to get them for you. You've asked them to do a special favor...
Some communities that use trash to fuel incinerators for power generation do recover coins from the ash left over after it's burned. Zinc cents...
Nobody, not to many Liberty Cap Large cents or 18th centurty British tokens show up in the tills around here.
Actually in the original packaging they have been bringing between $5 and $10 on eBay.
Most certainly the doubled edge. I's like asking which do you like better a double struck coin or a blank planchet. Much more impressive to look...
During the 1964 to 1970 period the governments official line was that there was no reason to withdraw the silver coins from circulation and that...
Don't worry, I would not post the link publicly, by PM or email only.
They were "sealed" but not always well. Yes they could be popped open with a knife blade but usualy not without showing signs of tampering. The...
Yes, coin mechanisms before the late 70's possibly early 80's were mechanical and judged the coin by diameter and weight and sumetimes ha a probe...
This is only true through 1990 for P and D and 1985 for S mint coins. After those dates the mintmark was part of the master hub so if the die...
OK I found his ebayauction for the coin....
None of the proof set cases from 1999 to 2007 are sealed and all of them can be opened and closed without damage.
I can't give you a link to the one he had posted, but I can give you a link to an offcentered one in a PCGS slab Let me know if you want it.
But the dollar coins last longer. Over the lifespan of the coin you would have to replace the paper dollar so many times that it would actually...
On the British Trade dollars the mintmark was on the middle prong of Brittainia's trident.
I can't prove it but I suspect it may have been another way of demonstrating our "independence" from Great Britain. During the colonial era and...
Possibly "straight" since they were solid date rolls. Straight can be used as a synonym for all. So Wt St 1954 means Wheat, all 1954.
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