Okay, now I feel better about my initial reaction to @ldhair's first coin. It's hard to imagine putting in the effort required to counterfeit...
Picture two dies coming together to strike a planchet. Each die is a "negative relief" of the coin design -- the high points on the coin...
Oh, come on. Even hard-core libertarians (who probably favor small government more than you do) agree that one legitimate function of government...
Man, I just turned in a bunch of 1946-S dimes as part of a "junk silver" transaction at the last local coin show. :( I wonder how rare this...
Aw, man, that's less than an hour from where I lived as a kid. My folks are still there, but I won't be visiting until October. :(
The 1982 looks like a massive die clash -- I've never seen anything like it on a Kennedy. The last one looks like it was partially melted. Given...
I just had a look at completed eBay auctions on gold Kennedy halves. I see 25-30 auctions that closed below the original $1240 issue price,...
Some of those spots look pretty black. Are you figuring you need to dip it to stop further corrosion? I like the general look. It makes sense to...
I've lived all my life on the East Coast. When I was a kid searching penny rolls, I almost never found S-mint cents -- I might have found two or...
I figured it was just the lousy underprovisioned network that I was on, but it's apparently widespread:...
Yep, it's against eBay policy, which says "no counterfeit coins". Previously it said "no copy coins unless they're stamped COPY in conformance...
Hammer/vise job? Incuse and reversed makes it look like another coin was pressed into it.
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