The mint did not lie. This is the description for the quarter oz from the Mint website Each 2006 American Eagle Platinum Uncirculated...
Welcome to the early 1970's and before when that WAS the standard procedure. Oh and back then Checks only, no credit cards, the checks were...
Now the question is, "Will you be able to get more than $10 apiece for these supposedly $200 coins?" I think there are a LOT of the values in the...
I like the reverse of the dollar, but I object to the PC obverse. (In order to "show the diversity at Jamestown" they included a negro female on...
It isn't so much Roosevelt appointees as it is senior citizens that grew up and still have personal memories of Roosevelt, the era, how he was THE...
Partially right. Plated yes, but I don't think it has been counterstruck. It looks to me like the nickel was holed and a minature was inserted....
How about the 1911 dollar? Two silver and one lead pattern known.
I thought the First Lady designs weren't being released until the 19th. Not likely. She will have to have been dead for two years before her...
Ok so they made it illegal. Big deal, people who want to melt them down will do it anyway. Back in the late 60's early 70's melting silver coins...
Looks like a young Gollum.
XF-45 and I think it will bodybag.
It is a token placed in a US mint set to identify the D mint half of the set. It is struck on a copper plated zinc cent planchet. I...
Well I mostly carry FRN. Why, because you can'y get the dollar coins. The local banks don'thave them.
There are about 3 million people on the mint mailing list, they have about a 10% responce rate, so about 300,000 actually buy directly from the...
Yes there was the act of 1792 that established the Mint and set the specifications for the coins including the half disme. But it also...
gmarguli has the correct answer, the tremendous Treasury stockpile of silver had been declared surplus years earlier. The GSA had conducted...
Yep, the 1 on the first coin got hit by the crimping finger on a rolling machine.
Pretty common. Finish the ring.
Buchhandlung means book shop So it means Swakopmunder Book Shop So it leterally means "Notes from the book shop in Swakopmunder."
The very simple answer is: Because collectors of ancients are so scarce. Maybe one percent of all the collectors in the US collect ancients (and...
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