Would that include William Harrison who lost his life in office because he stood in the cold rain giving a speech for two hours at his...
Unusual to find both an encasement and an advertising mirror in the same piece.
No one said they have to show the history in order. My problem with these designs is many of them don't clearly indicate what is being honored....
Idhair, you are right I have seen it before, in fact it is pictured in the book as UNKNOWN 1. Never have figured out for sure where it was from...
You ask. Difficult to tell because of the surfaces but it is ether N-1 or N-12 and I am strongly leaning toward N-1. N-1 is a common variety...
No it is an identification of where a particular counterfeit originated. An if I remember correctly the principals of Machins Mills did have some...
It is BELIEVED to have been made at the mint, no actual proof but likely. But for what official reason would it have been done? What you have is...
At the moment there is still only one variety of PCGS 5. The only way something like this would get a subvariety listing would be for the same...
Nothing here I haven't already seen with the possible exception of the 1889 S dollar that Idhair posted. Any chance at seeing the back of that...
Because it IS a tradition which by definition is something you do because you have always done it, even if there is no good reason to do so.
But the OP referred, or at least seems to refer, to the bullion strikes not the proofs or the "Uncirculated", burnished pieces. After all how...
Go ahead if you don't mind supporting the production of fakes, or breaking the law by importing into this country
I think (in this case) it's a trick of our eyes trying to make sense of random marks causing us to "see" something.
Flowlines from die wear/erosion.
OK that makes it 1039a, probably the most common version of that token. This is actually a pretty nice example of this token. It has the strike...
Sorry,lost my internet connection last night before I could expand on my last post Here's a link to the news story where they did it, with a...
Intentionally
The English pieces are listed as Conder tokens and are cataloged under Middlesex. There are three different die pair combinations D&H 1037, 1038,...
Depends on the counterfeit. They will slab Machins Mills Counterfeit British Half pence. NGC slabs lots of contemporary counterfeit Conder...
Nice, did they know what they had?
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