ANACS no longer gives verbal opinions, they just take submissions. Policy decision by the new owners (Anderson Press). The person at the...
There is a forum for collectors of the early bust coins but I don't have a link to it on this computer (Not the one Byron Reed ran, that one is...
That seller is well known for selling fakes and misrepresented coins. In the case of this 1880 nickel, the pictures are poor but I think the coin...
I'm confused, the Sac and the Loon dollar are the same size. The Sac may be just a bit larger (heavier) than the Loon. We would have to...
There have been many times in the past when the proof set has had 2 dollar coins. Try 1850 to 1872 and 1873 whenn three dollar coins were...
Not quite right. Congress authorizes the dollar note, but the Federal Reserve tells the BEP what to print by what they order. If they don't...
All brass alloys do, and the yellow brasses tend to need a lot of zinc so the cents would be a natural supply choice.
I notice no one has mentioned that along with the double strike, it is also on an incomplete (clipped) planchet.
Run, do not walk, back to that dealer and collect $500. Unless they specialize in error coins you would surprised how little most dealers know...
Specificly the signatures of the Treasurer of the United States will be different. If they change the Secretary of the Treasury then the series...
Actually the metal pieces are mainly the "emergency" coinage. The oddball things like the porcelain, coal and clay issues, along with most of...
The law requires that they strike one Sac dollar for every two President dollars.
Yes, they charge an extra $10 to put the First Strike on the label. So the get a greatly increased number of submissions, and $24 dollars apiece...
I do see what appears to be a couple small spots of corrosion but I do not believe that is what is causeing the color change. And I think we can...
Coinage 10, I think one reason you may not have gotten much in the way of responses on your coin was because you hijacked someone elses thread....
It might be reprocessed, or it may be die erosion doubling. I do not believe it to be mechanical doubling.
Bingo (of course Mike would get it.) I believe the way these are made is by putting the coin on a soft brass plate and then hitting them with a...
Those might be worth picking up if you can get them though. The starter kits for the first Euro countries are collectible already, and since the...
The german notgeld coinage does make an interesting collectable. It can be found in metal, porcelin, and in some other exaotic materials...
PCGS says this but they did not begin producing First Strike coins until 2005. They may have come up with the scam in 2004 but they didn't...
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