Since you say this was a silent auction and the money was going for a good cause I would assume it was for a charity of some kind. If so you may...
Some of the links take you to pdf downloads from Google books, others like the one 19Lyds posted take you to what appears to be a russian site...
I could have picked up all I wanted at the coin show in Muncie IN this past Sunday at the same price or less and not have to wait on the shipping.
It may be true. When I was working on the first edition of the slab book I was told by NGC they they did use an anti scratch coating (like they...
The rims aren't "cut back" at all. Encasements are made using an aluminum blank with a hole in it and the cent is placed in it and loaded into a...
I believe all the small letters would be considered to be rev of 39. It differentiates them from the 1840 medium letters with is actually a New...
If your interested your 09 is a Cohen 6, rarity 1 the 1810 is a Cohen 1, the only variety for the year. Also a Rarity 1 piece.
It's just another example of an incompetent government working at cross purposes with itself. Back before 2000, other than cities with major mass...
It is a cent in a bezel that has been broken off whatever it was attached to peeling back an edge on the bezel.
All of these polishing compounds work on the same principle, a fine abrasive suspended in a slightly viscous liquid. The larger the size of the...
Heavily plated with nickel. Pure nickel is STRONGLY magnetic, almost as much as iron.
Yes he does have a point, and it was the same point made by several posters last year.
Correct.
Coin wrapper machine damage. The wrapper finger that crimps the end of the roll scraped the 0 shearing it and pushing it to one side creating the...
That's where it happens. They enter the information from the submission form into the computer (And he information COULD also be wrong on the...
Bstrauss, sorry I didn't answer you earlier but I'm at a location where the internet connection is spotty and dissappears for hours at a time. I...
Beef beat me to it, the mint only adjusted gold and silver planchets not copper. But I would have no problem buying that coin as a G-6.
If it was an S with damage it would be a proof coin and this one isn't.
What does the edge look like. I'm wondering about possibly something removed from an encasement.
So would a modern proof dime with those scratches grade as a 63?
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