No. A postal scale is typically accurate to .1 oz or about 3 grams. You are trying to detect a shortness in weight of about 1.1 grams.
The closest thing they have to that is with the commemorative coins. The organizations that are supposed to get the surcharges the collector have...
Your 44 has a lamination, you can see it running from the center to about 4:30 on the obv. A lamination like that can result in a "dumb" planchet...
Remember that if you do attend one of the events and have them grade there there it is going to cost somewhere between $125 and $200 per coin for...
There are literally thousands of different designs used on silver rounds. Some have dates, some don't. I knew a collector in the Louisville Coin...
Nice surfaces on that piece. Most landscapes have all kinds of planchet problems.
As mentioned first check the weight, it will be slightly less than 1 gram. Strike should be strong with well formed rims. And who says you can't...
OK, I'll try. XF- 45 sharpness, small hole at 1215 o'clock possibly lightly cleaned long ago now well toned medium gray with lighter gray...
Fourth is the latest edition but many bust half people prefer the third edition. And I show the 95 O-115 as an R-5 as well. Good luck finding a...
That is a nice coin and I'd say it is probably at least a VF-35
Not really ACG was pretty much dead by that time. Much of their business by then was acting as an encapsulation service for other fly-by-night...
I'm not seeing any evidence of a silver plug.
The comment about "law enforcement officers" was a sarcastic commentary referring to his employees having to file all the items needed for legal...
TN-04 VA-05 UT-05 CO-01 FLA send them all back for redoing.
Bullion tends to rise and fall with spot, falling a little slower than it rises. Coin that have a numismatic value only a small amount over...
You are correct.
It does look like a rim clip. What you indicate on the left is simple finning, not that unusual on proofs. On the right looks like it could just...
He said he put the 94 and the 04 back in the holder. The 1799 is possibly a contemporary electrotype.
Sorry, I guess I should have said "any given non-mintmarked cent". As to the temperature of a struck coin, I don't believe it rises much above...
I think it is on the high side.
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