Up until about 10 years ago, the mint shipped cent to the Fed in canvas bags of 5,000 cents each, These are what people are talking about when...
If you can have a slipped edge error that means that they are NOT being made in a one step method and that means the edge is being lettered in a...
It looks like it is struck through a VERY late stage die cap. The cap has been pounded so many times that it has thined out to the thickness of a...
Can someone explain how you can have weak edge lettering on a proof coin? The coin is struck twice and the the planchet expands against the...
If you are talking about the PDF attachment, sure I don't mind. Would be nice if you credit the source but if you don't I won't get too upset....
Thanks, didn't know about attachments. There is now an attached PDF file in my previous post.
Story must not be accurate. No report of a plain edge yet, but there was a report on the NGC forum of a "slipped" edge error. (edge inscriptions...
I think it is a "Texas nickel" that has been beaten between a couple pieces of leather so that it would spread out in size, and then it has been...
Have you looked at the number of local banks in the US that issued their own currency? There were over 10,000 chartered banks after 1862 issuing...
Cents were not legal tender until April 22nd 1864 at which time they received a limited legal tender status to the amount of no more than 10 cents...
If your card expires between the ordering and the shipping just updating it on the website WILL NOT WORK! When you placed the order it makes a...
No premium value. (Although you never know what the people on eBay will pay for them.) There is at least one variety of 1864 2 cent that always...
I think he was just trying to offer some advice on how to improve the amount you receive from the auction by offering the buyers some extra...
If you are talking about importing coins of Britain and the UK, Scotland, Ireland etc. There is no problem almost anything many be exported from...
It is being published by Amos Press, the same people that publish Coin World. I believe the format will be along the same style as their Coin...
There is value in it to me since all I want are the Presidents. I can just buy that set and save $12 by not having to buy the rest of the coins I...
Photograde first came out in 1970 and at the time the photos WERE state of the art. Unfortunately the best edition to have is the first edition....
It tells me that the buyer was probably being unrealistic in his expectations and he probably got exactly what the auction promised him.
Actually it was pretty much the standard back in the days of the photocertificate before PCGS started just using a single composite grade. In...
They both appeared about the same time but then NANCS disappered for awhile. I have seen more NANC slabs than NANCS slabs. I do not believe the...
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