The coins are also usually cleaned and I think you would be lucky to remove the coin with out damage.
Mintmark position is off slightly and the date is much too low to be the source for the OP coin.
ICG will slab them, as a counterfeit, for educational purposes.
Lettering font is completely wrong and LIBERTY on coronet is raised instead of incuse. A laughable fake.
Buyers fee. This is an auction house that is listing their stuff on ebay as well. They still charge the standard buyer fee for auction sales....
I doubt it was even plated. Looks more like it was polished. It would be difficult to plate without plating the edge as well. Possible but you...
Compared to the genuine the date appears to be too high almost into the base of Liberty. The date style is right and the O mintmark placement is...
I'd go with Doug's explanation, an internally flawed planchet.
No they are obviously from different dies.
The 74 is not a proof. The "s" on the neck is the result of a hit on the coin and an overactive wishful imagination. The 54 dime is not a proof...
VF-30 sharpness, cleaned, surfaces a little rough and porous, net VG-10 possibly could be pushed to F-12 no more.
I don't know how common it is because I haven't looked for them, but to me I would not consider it to be a significant error. When it comes to...
Are there "whizz" markings in the field from where they polished the dies? Nothing is absolutely smooth. There are always "scratches" from...
Rather difficult to remove INCUSE letters on a PROOF coin and not have it show big time. On the other hand the letters are raised on the Proof...
It is returned to the seller and they try to charge them for the insufficient postage. Happened to me. I purchased an item (not coins) and it...
Get a Fresnel lens out of an old large screen TV. You can develop temperatures of 2000 to 3000 degrees with them at the focal point.
Rushed because they wanted to make it a clean transition and not have two coin designs the same year. If he had been shot in say Feb then we...
Environmental discoloration. Similar to all the "missing clad layer" pieces we see that are just ground recovered coins.
The reason they didn't just hold of and wait until 1922 to start the Peacedollar was because the new coin was intended to commemorate the end of...
The mint DID make a small number of such coins in sterling silver, but they only did so in 1996 and 2000. They didn't show the obverse of the...
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