Looks like a dryer coin that was in there long enough to beat down the reeding but not long enough to start seriously broadening the edge. Shows...
Brass, Bronze contains tin in the alloy. Many metals are needed in trace amounts for good health, but all metals are poisonous in larger amounts.
Vending machines may not have been sophisticated but the still wanted nickels of the same size and weight as the old ones. A steel nickel of the...
Yes S-13. There are only two known reverse dies and this is the die used on 13, 14, NC-6, and S-16. The bisecting obv crack is not there so it...
That may be true of the larger denominations, but not of the cent or five cent since they cost more to make than their face value. When they get...
Nice I never knew about the U over U. I always used the last S in STATES. On type 1 it extends halfway up the E while on tyoe 2 it barely...
And I hope a penicillin shot.
The Royal Mint was also using screw presses. The Royal Mint did not upgrade to steam presses (sold to them by Boulton) until after 1800. I...
They did let them design the state quarters. Most of those were also hideous and boring. Remember the WY quarter was the result of of a public...
They will be discontinued eventually, when is anyone's guess, but I don't expect it to happen for at least three more years. Will the melt ban be...
You are correct, late die stage of S-139.
1975. San Francisco made both circulation and proof cents from 1968 through 1974, but from 1975 to date ALL S mintmarked cents are proofs.
Gold recovered from dental gold WILL have traces of mercury in it. But when you are testing a gold bar and find tiny traces of mercury, is that...
It isn't a modern copy, the 1787 six pence and shilling do tend to look that good. Ours were "crude" because we were new at it, but GB had been...
But once you get the grade you want, and then send it in fir the Secure+, it may come back at a lower grade with the secure+ and some cash.
Bingo! I think the design HAS been wiped out in the fields and the token was circulated and wht your are seeing the "dirt" outline of the design....
Incused on both sides it could be a bad contemporary counterfeit, or it was just someone playing around back then but it is not an error.
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