You mis-spoke. In early copper RARE ends at 75 (R-5 31 -75 known), scarce ends at 200 (R-4 76-200 estimated).
And three sets of fingerprints on a coin made from a compositions that is very reactive and which has very delicate surfaces.
Grellman is the best reference for these. They do that a fair amount of experience/practice and it really helps i you have better condition...
The 10 pesos and up, not the 1 ,2, or 5 peso.
The mintage listed for the 2009-D nickel is wrong. Actual mintage was 48.6 million.
I think it has a pretty fair chance of being real.
Did you explain why it was special and why she shouldn't spend it?
The families lawyer probably took it for the publicity and on contingency, as for the government lawyers, we paid them.
If I remember correctly to used dots as spacers. You will also see three vertical lines equally spaced around the edge. Those are the joints...
The only way it would be possible would be if it was a Sac dollar struck over a previously struck quarter. But in that case it would be silver...
Looks like the reverse is also slightly misaligned toward 7:00. Not in the same direction as the obverse.
If you bought it from the Mint then it is NOT a SMS set. They didn't sell the 1964 SMS sets, just mint sets and proof sets. The SMS sets did not...
It also has the shield reverse not used til 1860. I don't believe it was used on any of the 1858 patterns.
If they did then they would be asking their customers to pay 100 times as much today than they did yesterday and they would get nothing. And why...
Actually they would because you would be paying for them with "new dollars" that have 100 times the purchasing power of the old dollar,. Probably...
Looks good to me, possibly even a little conservatively graded.
Acid soaked, the acid attacks the copper faster than the coppernickel.
See the P below the bust of the Queen? That indicated that it is plated steel. The canadian mint did some real world testing by striking and...
Looks like S-49, die stage 1 before the die crack from the rim down through the upright of the E the the head formed.
It could be done, in combination with a revalued dollar. Chop two zeros off so the New dollar has the same purchasing value as the current $100....
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