There's a fellow on the PCGS forum that has spent them. He says so far he's spent 7 of them.
It could be a case of the copper nickel layer being scraped down and covering the copper on the edge. That does happen. (It happens in the...
I really like the altered "10" dollar note! It may not be worth what some of the others are, but to me that is the most interesting piece in the...
None of them recognize Taiwan (Republic of China) either. (Because China considers them merely a rebelious province of Chinaand no one wants to...
You might need to explain "milk bottle caps" a lot of the younger people here probably have no idea what a milk bottle cap was or what they...
Yes but if I can screw you for $15,000, I only have to find three or four people like you a year. I think I could do the hard work of selling 4...
That coin was determined to be a fake struck from false dies years ago. Would still be interesting to know where it is today.
The reason they are so rare is because under the terms of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890, the notes could be redeemed for either gold or...
No research that I know of indicates that six were struck. All the stories of six trace back to one of two reasons. One was old stores about the...
That will be 2010.
The term recutting is actually almost always incorrectly used. Very little engraving or recutting has ever been done on US coins. Recutting...
Smile when you say that pardner. :) In the past two weeks I've spent $725 to get five Conder tokens I need. (OK 9 other pieces I didn't need...
I say it is most definitely a cracked planchet. I think what you called a cud on the obverse up there near the head is post mint damage though.
What kind of sticker is it? there are people who collect coins with business advertising stickers on them and they will sometime pay a...
Don't make that assumption. Since there are tens of thousands of varieties of ancient coins, just because he hasn't seen that one doesn't mean it...
Short answer. Until 1965 our coins were a solid alloy. Since 1965 they have been coppernickel "clad" or bonded to a pure copper core. Usually...
1. One holder is P one is D. This is also the last year for the double mint set so there should be two coins of each denomination from each...
Mintages of Proof Sacs 2000 4 million 2001 3.1 million 2002 3.2 million (The figures shown in the Redbook only include the proofs in the...
Plastic? The 1957 mint sets were packaged in cardboard holders not plastic. If this is a mint set in a plastic holder it has already been broken...
Definitely sounds like a fantasy piece sold as a souvineer at Civil War battle sites etc. The Confederacy DID strike half dollars, over a...
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