Most of those envelopes sold on eBay are not "authentic" either. They are printed up on the aftermarket and the government never owned those...
Nope, a die chip would be a raised lump. This just looks like something hit the end of his chin and flattened it. Post mint damage.
Thought of a fifth way, broken die (cud in the area below the bust).
How do you know how long it has stayed in circulation" You may be the first or second person to receive it. That's true even if it shows wear...
Since the initials are on the original model that is reduced to create the master hub, there are four ways you can have missing initials....
The dies are "keyed" by grinding a flat on the body of the die. If you grind the flat in the wrong place, you have a rotated die.
Showing bits and pieces is OK but it would also help to have large pictures of both sides of the coin in question. From just looking at the...
Can you explain how you came to this conclusion? It is right now, but the ratio is constantly changing. In the 1790's it was 15X, then it went...
I think that Dansco WILL offer albums with and without the satin finish coins in the future. You have to realize that these manufatures don't...
If you can find it, at one point the Graysheet published a book of all the old graysheet values from 1963 to I think it was 1988 or 89. A 25th...
The only color on the mint sets are the red and blue edge bands on the pliofilm. And red and blue are the only colors I am aware of. (Sometimes...
If you want an orange metal alloy, try Aluminum Bronze. It starts out a nice golden color and tones down to orange as it wars and ages.
Obviously not an error. It had to be made deliberately. In order to do this with standard printing plates, for the first printing the press...
But the price on the proof version would have to go up $4. FIVE DOLLARS Oh yes that is SO much more attractive than ONE DOLLAR
1978-S proof Ikes only come as clad proofs. The last year for silver proofs in 1976.
Native American I'm not sure about that. So far it has four co-sponsers, but I think it needs somewhere in excess of 220 co-sponsers before...
It came out in 1984, circulated very briefly and got pulled. Flash forward to 2007 when it got sent back to the bank for some reason, and you...
I can accept the term medal-coin, but I think most likely I will continue to use NCLT for these not really coins, not really medals things.
See the last part of my previous post. The aluminum oxide on the surfaces of the planchet would result in excessive die wear. Plating the...
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