Correct. In 1873 they ended the free coinage of silver (Until that point anyone could bring silver to the mint and have it turned into coins are...
The Euro production rate is way below ours. That 2.7 billion coins represents 7 years of production from 17 mints. That's 386 million coins per...
Average annual wage in Afghanistan is $300 per year or $5.76 a week. A $10 - $15 profit on the sale of a single coin looks pretty good. How...
But make sure you are talking to a dealer who specializes in errors. When it comes to errors 90% of the mainstream dealers have no idea what they...
Looks to me like for some reason the coin stopped rotating momentarily as it was passing through the lettering machine. Since the letters are...
Simple answer to that is that no that no they are not considered to be errors. The lettered edged cents and halves and dollars all come with edge...
Fake 1906 silver eagles coming out of china have been well known for years. Odds are better than 99.999% that it is a fake.
Excellent point. Yes the british are not having the same types of problems we are, but we are striking more in three months than they will...
What about contempoary counterfeiting? At one time these weren't worthless.
I wonder why it would be postmarked the 16th? Frst day of issue was April 13th 1976.
Even if the signature changes they continue printing the old series until the plates wear out. Then they start the new series.
And where did those pictures come from?
No they are a business and they try to have the number of rolls on hand that they need. they don't want to be short, and they don't want to have...
It requires a sideways pressure on the coin as it rolls through the lettering dies. This compresses the coin slightly.
How deeply the letters are impressed into the edge will also cause a variation in the thickness of the letters. the depth of the impression can...
They struck four, there are records that they struck four, we know where all four of them are today, this isn't one of the four. Survey SAYS! [X]
No they are not. the law mandating the changes on the reverse of the cent in 2009 was signed into law on Dec 22, 2005 and it doesn't say...
Also there issometimes no logic to the banks concerns. i saw on one thread somewhere where the collector wentto the bank in the late afternoon on...
600 million. If the Sac has to be 1/3 of the total mintage then 1.2 billion is 2/3 of the total mintage. Half of 1.2 billion or 600 million would...
Uh, first the Mint comes up with it, then they have to convince a Congressman that it is a good idea so he can have a bill written up, then he has...
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