Thanks for the info! I seldom get to places that have them now. I once lived in Mobile, AL, and there were two, sometimes three dealers at a...
How far to the left is the H on the 1881-H, H to left, variety? Is this one? I picked it up in a 12-for-a-dollar box at a flea market.[ATTACH]...
I was speaking only of circulation, that is, of bags of coins shipped to us from the Federal Reserve each week, since the original question asked...
When I was 10 or 11 years old or so, back in the early 60s, I earned money at a small town bank by wrapping coins for 1 cent a roll. I would...
Unless you just have to have it, have patience. Nobody else will want it (unless they only look at the obverse), and eventually it will probably...
I agree, it is a cool coin!
I believe you will find that the "doubling" on both the 1971 10 pence and 5 pence is only the style of font chosen for artistic reasons. Yours is...
Thanks to all who have commented. Especially to Valentinian. Thank you for taking the time to give such a full explanation! After 54 years of...
Don't do it. Dipping would not improve its appearance or its value. It would only make it look, well, dipped. And, being a special gift,...
My coin certainly is made of bronze, and I would have thought that anyone debasing it would just mix the lead in with the melted bronze. But...
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Back in 1963, when I was only 13, I bought my first Roman coin, by mail order, and received a very corroded 14mm bronze of Constantine II. I...
Because they made so many, and because when they stopped making them so many people, and not just collectors, held on to them ("These will be...
Entry Post. Hope you have great holidays!
1 sho (1937 I think) Tapchi mint, from "12 for a dollar" bin. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
What you have is the earlier design. In 1987 the mint modified the reverse. Besides making the end of the ribbon straighter, they realigned the...
It may be worse than harshly cleaned. While I have bought coins that looked better than the picture, I bid assuming they looked worse. I saw one...
No one has mentioned modern US commemorative gold. If you are just interested in mainly the melt value but want a legal tender coin, the common...
It doesn't look like one used to "fix" a fuse, since it is a zinc center and probably too new for that. Also, there are a lot of scrapes and...
I would like to think that Lincoln was sitting around in a penny jar all those years until somebody cashed in the contents. It happens. But it...
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