Even with the scratches it's a nice coin.
That's the problem. There is no seigniorage on the cent or five cent, or rather they have a negative seigniorage. In the past they could use the...
The Muncie show. Usually a very nice show but attendance was down this year. Weather problems. I didn't get all the way around and I missed...
Depends on how they are stored. Like any paper product it will tend to stay in good shape if it is stored away in a cool dark place with moderate...
Here is a thought. They have this thing called snail mail. Consider ordering the wrappers from a supplier OFF-LINE and paying for it with a...
Hard to make money investing in rare gold coins when once you sell you have to pay 28% in capital gains taxes on your investment. In a lot of...
Which merely means it is a very old fake. Made back when a high grade large cent was a cent or two. I agree with Non_cents, this is a fabrication.
The paper wrappers are available. Wizard sells them at $2.25 per hundred. SUPPOSED to, no. But most do just because they don't want to handle...
Well considering the purchasing power, when I started collecting the cent had the same purchasing power that a dime has today. That means that...
Plain 4 stemless, C-13 the most common 1804 half cent
And if we didn't have the cent then most beginning collectors would start with the nickel.
I strongly suspect fake. The 4 appears to be too close to the 0 and the LIBERTY appears to be too close to the head. And after staring at it, my...
Be worth owning AS an altered date coin as a novelty, but not at the ebay price.
Those are rare, and valuable.
It looks like It is struck through a mid to late stage die cap. Faint traces of the lincoln are showing through an enlarged distorted memorial....
The mint stopped coining for other countries in 1984. I haven't been able to find what the last coins they made were. Also the planchet...
They did that once several years ago but got so many complaints and returns of spotted sets that they stopped the sale and destroyed the rest of...
I like this part. Yeah just like they did with the small size dollar.
I think I can see the right curving crackthat passes just below the right foor of the 1 in the numeration through the ribbon, andthe end ofthe...
I do see the triple strike. In the motto IGWT it appears two od the strikes were close together and one with a greater rotation between the...
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