I think you probably have it backwards. It was probably an Australian coin. There have been six different Austraian coins that have included the...
The 1868 shield nickel comes with three different reverse hub designs, yours is a hub of 1868 only used in this one year. There was only one...
Gallery Grading has been around for about five months now and I really can't understand this company at all. They have absolutely the wierdest...
If you do you are required to submit an example to my reference set, along with information on your location and when the grading service began.
bigd, you mentioned me in the first post as one of the people you wanted a comment from. Well since in the first thread I said I was 99.9+% sure...
It's been awhile since I used Pick, but I was under the impression that they did give the size of the note in millimeters as 123 X 456.
In the 1830's a semi-skilled laborer earned probably between 1 and 2 dollars a day. In Mexico the wages would have been even lower. A 8 reales...
Interesting "counterstamp", if that is what it is, runing up vertically above the 80. Can't make out what it is, but why counterstamp a fake?
Here's a fourth neat fact, they are one of only four US coin designs that doesn't contain the word Liberty.
Possibly, but why hasn't it broken the copper plating more severely? I only see a couple small breaks. (Or it could just be the pictures aren't...
Because they were printed in 20,000 sheet runs. The serial number are actually printed in decending order so the first sheet would have the...
Russian wire money. I believe the period was late 1500's to early 1600's. Sorry can't tell you which czar it is.
Back was protected and the obverse toned. It looks like a very nice well struck coin to me.
The maximum total mintage of the dollar was 500,000. There were 106,422 Unc and 99,020 proofs sold. The 106,422 figure includes all holder...
Yes but the 1836 shown is not one of the redesigned ones.
Well by 1836 she had hair. :)
I have seen one fake of a 53 no arrows and rays half, but it was made by altering a with arr & rays half. The greater weight of this piece...
VERY interesting. I suspect what we are seeing are the "panagraph" reduction lines from the machine that reduces the image from the epoxy model...
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