On the genuine coins you should se a "nub" of the top and bottom of the 1 at the front of the two. The pictures do not show that. They are also...
Ever since the mint began using the satin finish it has been very inconsistant. For awhile in 2005 the TPG's would only grade a coin as Satin if...
Sounds like a nickel or chrome plating. Nickel is strongly magnetic and chromium mildly so. The plating is thin though so there isn't much...
I would be surprised if the Monroe is issued for circulation, and I think the circulation coins will definitely end before Van Buren (Unless they...
No a reminder to learn to grade coins yourself,.
Your note isn't well centered, but normally they won't bring any premium until part of the printing is off the note, and preferably part of the...
I could see the Korea change over from Series 481 to Series 521, change over done on May 25th 1954, but they changed over to that same series in...
What do we think about it? We think that hundreds if not thousands of collectors are out there scrutinizing proof sets doing exactly that every...
Sure you could. But go ahead and try, and then put a glass on the edge and notice how different the edge of the altered coin looks compared to a...
You haven't talked to too many old time stamp and sportscard collectors have you? Of course first you have to find them because most of them have...
An interesting and oft repeated story but it couldn't have happened too often. They only issued a new series about twelve times in almost thirty...
Struck coins are carried from the press to the edger. When it is emptied some stick in the hopper. later the hopper is used to transport...
The coin is too out of focus to really tell anything. I see a couple places where star points appear to be doubled but that could just be a focus...
I can guarantee that there wouldn't be, because I'll let you in on a little secret, the U S Mint hasn't issued any $1 bills in over 200 years....
You have to feel sorry for the Mint. Everytime someone in the House or Senate comes up with a stupid idea, or even worse manages to actually...
The first one was discovered sometime in the past six months. Yours is the second one that I have heard of. Surprisingly there has also been an...
Nothing will reverse it but a dry environment (the dryer the better, the corrosion requires water to proceed and water vapor in the air will work...
My calculations show that the P & D mints could produce the 300 million president dollars using four presses at each mint in 58 working days...
I'm a bit confused. Can someone explain what this dropped letter is, how it is formed, and how it creates the effect seen here? I know what a...
Can't really tell from the pictures, but it might be clashed dies.
Separate names with a comma.
