The coin and series numbers were only used on the slabs between 1999 and Nov 2005. These would be varieties PCGS 8 and PCGS 13. (Varieties 9 -...
So basically this "new way it deter counterfeits" is look at the coins really closely and compare them to previously made images. This is new?...
303, all almost identical, all on the same date and mint, all in the same location, I would be very skeptical of PSD. It really sounds like...
Coin 30 would probably be the bicentennial coppernickel clad proof, 31 wth be the 1977 proof, 32 would be the 1978 etc. Coin 29 was the 1974...
There weren't any, But only because there wasn't any OSHA then. This video gets "rediscovered" every so often.
There are three possibilities, a tapered planchet, die faces not parallel, or simply one side struck up faster than the other side.
I heard about these cents struck on nails years ago but this is the first time I've actually seen one.
In the first pictures the point of the leaf below the C in AMERICA was left of the center. That eliminated 281 and 282. On those the POL is...
Yep, 284.
I don't know, talk to Somalia, Niue, Vanatu, Isle of Man, Liberia, or one of the other countries that like to issue coins commemorating other...
Well they did say "Only someone with a trained eye could determine that the money was counterfeit. "
Not whimsical they are serious, income from illegal sources is reportable. That was decided back during prohibition and it was what they used to...
I grade it very nice.
No it definitely isn't 282, and it isn't 281. I'm leaning toward 283 but the area I really need to see, from the last S in STATES thru the first...
I wouldn't know I never paid any attention to the grading. I research the slabs and certificates. I don't care about the coins in the holders,...
Struck on dime PLANCHET. Struck on dime stock would imply cent sized planchet punched from dime strip. Nit-picking.
True, but he did say it has other covert anti-counterfeiting features that he wouldn't dscuss. That leaves everything on the table as a possibility.
ANACS used the obv/rev grading starting when they began grading coins in 1980. At first with just the grades 60 and 65 then after April of 1980...
He said they were the same grade and price, he didn't say they were the same date. We can assume one is a 1907 or 08 because we know one of them...
Every thing I see matches up for the S-189 State III
Separate names with a comma.