Typically candlesticks/candelabras etc are weighted. They are a silver shell over a "cement" interior that provides the weight to keep them from...
What's it worth as melt? The candelabra in it's present form would be too hard to move, too recognizable. It would have to be melted down to...
Unless their forklift ran over it several times.
Most likely the rendering was done early on and they were considering both a proof and an Unc version. They made renderings of both and when they...
I think it is a die crack and here is why. It is a very fine line and it is continuous. If you lightly scratch the field of the die you are...
It is much closer to the ACG slab. Which is understandable because they licensed the slab from Accugrade and ACG designed the shell. If you like...
Doily slabs are worth a premium, but not a huge one. They are not easily obtainable but if you keep looking you will find one (at least at the...
The TPG's will often be "more forgiving" on the older type coins. And even more so on rare coins. There are a lot of obviously cleaned bust...
What cameo proof on one side and matte proof on the other? (They haven't said anything like that but it might be interesting. Another "unique"...
Will your method detect both cast or struck fakes in any composition? Electrotypes? Altered genuine coins? Low pressure and high pressure casts?
They will insure bullion too, but the maximum payout is $15 unless it is sent by registered mail. Same reference as earlier but part o o. Except...
Jim M is correct about the banks, but the screw in the banks made a much smaller circular cut in the coin, something like 6 - 7 mm in diameter....
It makes me glad I collect 18th and early 19th century material.
You let me inside I may never leave. :)
But the Cheerios giveaway was NOT they only time coins have been packaged in boxes of breakfast cereal (or other products). Promotions like that...
Sounds more to me the way to kill interest in the coin. Sink over $30K into a collection of 50 of the exact same coin just because the labels are...
Artists rendition, not an actual coin.
And to help them find it it is Domestic Mail Manual Section 609 Filing Indemnity Claims for Loss or Damage 4.0 Claims 4.1 Payable Claims g. For...
It is definitely the 1808/7 overdate (C-1 and C-2), the 7 is clearly visible and on the non-overdate (C-3) the 8 is made of two overlapped 0's...
5 dollar United states Notes come with series 1928, 28A, 28B, 28C, 28D, 28E, 28F, 1953, 53A, 53B, 53C, and 1963
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