Howdy Kjetil - Welcome to the Forum ! Yes, that coin was minted in Russia.
One thing you may want to take notice of, the author of that article, Paul Green, has been dead for about 4 years now. Paul Green was a wonderful...
Marshall the commonly used term for what you are talking about is over-strike. That is when a coin or token of a different country, or perhaps...
Marshall, just so you understand. As Matt explained, by the time the gold coins in this thread were minted there were no US coins being struck on...
There is no way that could happen because of the different sizes of the planchets.
Hmmmm - it seems that some of you are unaware that there used to be full blown factories, huge places, in the middle east pumping out fake gold...
Here's the link you need - Coins Accepted And to answer the question a different way - there are no coins that exist that have ever been...
Steve this is exactly what I was talking about. There are a great many people who think that learning to grade isn't that hard. But it is - it is...
There is something that needs to be noted here - the Prestige sets contained ordinary clad coins. Only the dollar coins were silver.
Marshall - are you saying that you think the coins are over-strikes ? A coin of a different design deliberately struck on top of another coin ?...
One other thing that hasn't been mentiond yet yakpoo. I have said a thousand times that you can go to 2 different dealers and get an asking price,...
Yeah but look at how pebbly the surface is, even the rim and protected areas. That can come from very worn dies, but it also comes from elctrotype...
It's a 1616 Lion Dollar (or half dollar, the size/weight will determine which) struck at the West Friesland mint. Value in that condition would be...
yakpoo I wasn't suggesting that you were manipulatiing anything - merely that numbers like those you were showing are usually quite misleading....
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