I was reading up on why this was such a short-lived issue, and learned something odd (to me at least) - large cents were never legal tender...
According to Wexler https://doubleddie.com/58201.html in the US "With the introduction of the Flying Eagle and Indian Head cents the Mint began...
OP hasn't been here for going on 12 years.
You can see that the metal is rough all the way around and a fin of it folded over. It wouldn't take much depth to raise a thin circle of metal...
I'm guessing someone started drilling a hole and quit. The New Orleans mint didn't exist for another 8 years.
There was a similar thing with the Camp Fire that wiped out Paradise, CA in 2018. The collection was in a safe and NGC did the restoration and...
Not that much different than a bulk submission at the other TPGs except they're not individually slabbed.
It's interesting to look at the distribution versus the mintages and consider where you might be detecting geographically. 1917 and 1924 you have...
The image pasted is not the same quality as on their website here...
Marketing.
I couldn't find any on Heritage or PCGS with that large knob on the tail of the 5 either. The 0 should be thin at the top and the loops of the 8...
The date looks wonky to me.
I think this depends on the coins, the era when they were graded, the grader, the day of the week... I've only submitted Canadian coins to ANACS...
My last purchase (May 2024) went from Irvine to Anaheim to Moreno Valley before heading to Denver. Considering it took 26 hours to scan in at...
Is that from personal experience?
GC is 50 miles from the fires. I imagine some of their employees may have been affected but that's a long commute through LA if they are.
Personally I think the real story is way cooler than the Martha's donated silverware story. Nobody ever claimed Martha actually held any of the...
"SsuperDdave" is/was a moderator over on CCF. He hasn't posted there since 2020. I'm not sure if it's the same person though.
And my posts bore 99%. You want to talk about comprehending graders, look at proof Barber dimes. How they decide the difference between PR64 and...
These are the only proof coins I own aside from a 1971-S Ike, so I know very little about them either. Both are rather dark with age, and thus...
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