No, the reverse hubs that create the close and wide AM cents are different. There are several differences in the design between the two hubs....
Interesting, the rims by the clip and the flowing in weakness of the date are the two features that convince me the clip is real. (Plus the lack...
From his description it sounds like he is saying the obv half of the edge is unreeded, and the reverse half is reeded. In other words a partial...
The AM do not have to touch to be a close AM. As mentioned earlier polishing of the dies will cause the seperation of the letters to widen....
It is underinked, not obstructed. If it was obstructed the area would be completely blank but if you look carefully you will see that most if not...
Another good reference is Cast Chinese Cash by David Hartill. It came out about a year or so ago and it is quite good. It will probaly become...
The billion mark coin comes in both 60mm and 61mm sizes. I have both of them. In fact I am only missing a couple of the varieties in the series.
The Omega counterfeits were identified by ANACS back in the early 1970's and probably date from around that time. It wasn't a case of ANACS...
I know people are buying them, but how many of them are actually COLLECTING them. I think either a great many of them are buying for speculation...
1964 coins struck on clad planchets do exist, I've seen some. I have also seen 1965 coins struck on silver. I do not believe there are any 1966...
Really? How many people actually collect gold eagles by date, mint, and condition?
I don't know about that. I bet they were much more popular back around the turn of the 20th century. As a general rule, no generation really...
I believe thear are only one or two civil war tokens that were issued in the Confederacy. Almost all of them were issued by merchants in the...
Looks lightly plated and the plating is wearing through.
There can be reasons for charges like those. Especially if it is a smaller bank. Banks do not like to have to order coin or return surplus...
Don't count on that. When I went to work for the first time back in 1978 the we used a little older cash register (Not REAL old) and the tray...
One more Coinage Act of 1965 Sec 102 All coins of the United States (including Federal Reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal...
Looks to me like a typical Unc, and since almost all of them are uncs my bet is that this was a circ set that someone put together from pocket...
Anyone with knowledge of the history of the original seizure knew. And yes there is at least one more, probably 5 more, still out there. It was...
The figure on the mint site is most likely the business strike figures and do not include the mint set coins.
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