Most likely you just have a well struck 2007 cent. The better the strike the better the rims strike up and the thicker the coins appear on the...
The Smithsonian is looking for a curator for the NNC.
This is a restrike. Blow up the images and the images on the PDF from NGC and compare the folds of the cap. they don't match. Since the NGC is...
Can't be an 1872, date logotype is the wrong style. It's wide and curved, the 1872 is compact and straight.
I will be there the 15th and 16th......And broke.
OK first he is asking about the correspondence courses not the summer seminar. Are they worth it? Probably , and they are a lot cheaper if you are...
NGC has been the premier slabber for world coins for years. NGC actively worked the market for years before PCGS really started paying any...
Bring the competition's wife instead. The answer of course is that in ten years your coins will be worth more than you paid for them, her purse...
Did you make your expenses? Did you make your table fees? Were you able to do any buying across the table? Are you beginning to realize that...
Not worth a monetary premium, but a good coin to keep as a teaching piece,
The S looks like machine doubling damage, but the upper left serif of the U looks good.
removed from encasement
Very good, but you mean dime collar.
First one is machine doubling, I would think the second is a form of die deterioration similar to the die deterioration that causes the raised...
My impression as well.
They are world coins. Hawaii was an independent Kingdom at the time the coins were struck, not a US territory
Agreed, all fake and all base metal.
Just look at one of the 69's they're a lot easier to find and they look the same.
The right edge of the scroll is directly below the junction of the AM of America. Rev's that match that or are very close are E, H,K, M, & O....
Surfaces are porous enough to give it a details grade for environmental damage.
Separate names with a comma.