The planchets and finished coins are transported around the mint in large tote bins. Take a bin filled with finished dimes, empty it. Sometimes...
Don't think so. I believe the 1990 P comm Eisenhower dollar has a P mintmark. And there are others as well.
Possibly because oranges for eating and oranges for juicing are not the same kind.
Lucky for me I'm not a bobblehead collector. :)
We have a website!?? Been a member for 26 years and never knew we had a website. (and I have no idea who set that up.) Membership of about 160,...
And posting this in three threads is two threads too many.
Hadn't realized silver had gotten that low, change my earlier offer to $13.50
Looks to me like a WAM.
I'm a member of both the Old Fort Coin Club (Ft Wayne IN) and the Derby City Coin Club (Louisville KY) I'll be at the Old Fort show this weekend.
If I had to have him on my silver round I'd want a discount so I'd pay $15.
There are 20 different versions of the 2009 cents. There are four designs and two compositions and come in these combinations 2009 P copper...
A 60X loupe is much too strong for such an examination.
Weight would be the first and easiest first test. If the weight indicates that there is a good chance it is 90% then a specific gravity test...
Did they say it was not cleaned, or that it wasn't clean? Means two different things. If they said it's not clean that means it wouldn't grade...
Also looks like there could be some MDD going on as well.
Not a struck through die cap, looks more to me like Post Strike Damage.
Unless you are at one where they do hourly door prize drawings. :)
But of course you do realize there is a big difference between "fine" and "Fine". One is just an adjective, the other is a specificly defined...
Not hard to accomplish if you want to do it.
I don't know about Cointalk, but they do follow the PCGS and NGC forums. And as Caruso's Black Cabinet site becomes more prominent I'm pretty...
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