If there is no damage to the other side of the coin then I would say it could be the result of a die chip.
The problem is that there are very few people who collect them by date. Even fewer that collect by variety. This means that the only person who...
I'm not a big fan of Barbers, but I have to admit Matt is right about this one it is Mint Stare!
Five to ten dollars was what I was thinking. It's interesting but just a novelty to me, not something I actually need for my collection.
It was a good story and a good laugh when it as published 8 years ago. (and as with many Onoin stories some people believed it.)
Oh people in the coin community knew it, but the general public didn't. And if word travels so well today, why are the TV shopping channels still...
As I've said before, even if you could go back to that time you couldn't buy those coins at those prices. Those were Mehl's BUYING prices from an...
Typically at the shows you will be speaking with the clerical staff NOT the graders. Even if they do have some of the graders there, most of them...
$65 is cheap for a good variety reference
Bingo, that is exactly what it was for. This is what I call a Presentation slab. These were made up for distribution to the girl scouts...
Whether it is one big monitor showing the whole cycle, or 10 monitors each showing a 12 min segment for that aisle, you still come up with two...
Salty, the problem with that monitor idea is that if you have one coin shown for each table at the ANA show and it is on the screen for 10 seconds...
Total all the sets sold on ebay for a few months and note what percentage are slabbed and what percentage are still in OGP. After several months...
Well first of all they aren't French they are Swiss. Some Swiss coins have been struck with coin orientation and some with medal orientation. It...
That is what is called finning. Some of the silver has squeezed up between the collar and the neck of the die. This can occur if the coining...
They stopped making Canadian coins from pure nickel back in 1981. Today they are made of nickel plated steel, which is why they still stick to...
OK weight is too high to be missing a clad layer. The normal spec weight for a quarter is 5.67 grams. 5.5 grams is a little low but is within...
Now those are rare holders.
I agree, solder.
At the time Coin Vault was active there were very few slabbed coins. Basically just Accugrade. Everyone else used photocertificates. They...
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