Don't know what made them, but it didn't leave the mint with them.
Often when discussing the 1955 poor mans the term double die used to avoid calling it a doubled die which it isn't. Even better is to refer to it...
If you could actually exchange it, about three cents. A dealer would have it in his 25 cent box, and as rick said the grease fill does not...
Are they making a high relief silver Liberty piece? I know they talked about it last year when the made the high relief $100 gold coin but I...
The reason I get puzzed by slabbing pieces like this is it would seem to me that the collectors that would be seriously interested in it can tell...
Yes it won't straight grade but I think it is nice. If I had the cash sitting around I would be willing to go $450, frankly I would not be...
OK, I thought maybe you were thinking of a 1783 Nova Constellatio
Quality images and if you can, host them OFF ebay and embed them in your description. The images that ebay hosts now are horrible and you can no...
1783 Fugio??
Under the old school grading I learned under, it doesn't have at least three letters of LIBERTY so it won't make VG. The rim is just about gone...
No, for every dollars worth of nickels you use you have 100 grams in the sock. For every dollars worth of cents you get 250 to 310 grams. So...
Haven't seen the patent before, but I have seen the "token".
Yes there are 90% silver planchets for the proofs, but they aren't in Philadelphia, they are either shipped directly from a fabricator to San...
Real, And I don't see why it needs slabbing.
But other than 1000 Kr coins for Iceland struck in 2000, the mint hasn't struck coins for another country since 1984.
The Toven specimen of the 1974 P aluminum cent on the other hand has been graded by two different grading services and even put on display....
The WB book that was on the DLRC website is woefully out of date and it only listed four varieties for the 1861-O and it didn't separate with ones...
I don't have a copy of that press release, did they list weights? I would be surprised if they did. I would assume they would want to keep the...
I agree IF they are actually checking the metal content and not just assigning them to each group based on "appearance". (And if they are...
It may be very slightly out of spec. Tolerance on a nickel is +/- .19 grams So a nen nickel could weigh as little as 4.81 grams. You scale only...
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