You can't open and reclose the cases. Before 1999 the proof set cases were sonicly sealed, not always well sealed, but they were sealed. (After...
Hobo, Toward the end of the year they do start making dies for the coming year so they are often making dies for both years at the same time....
The Pollock 333 is a "regular dies trial piece" meaning it is just a regular pair of quarter eagle dies that have been used on a copper planchet....
Try talking to Paul Cunningham, he wrote the books on US military tokens.
It isn't a die, it is a crude contemporary counterfeit. Even if you couldn't make dies, you could take pieces of metal put them between two...
A mutilated coin made by impressing it with false dies. Press a coin into a piece of brass it creates an incuse reversed impression and it work...
I agree with Hobo that this is a double struck off-center but I have a slightly different explanation of how it occurred. The first strike was...
Most likely a contemporary counterfeit.
Too late, there already are.
Actually it can be found (or at least something similar) in the 20th century as well. Good example is the counterstamp coinage of Costa Rica...
Mike beat me to it.
I never said it was an official stamp. In fact I would not expect it to be.
I'm coming up with O-107.
I think it is real from a worn die. And yes the date is repunched.
Created the nickel as a temporary substitute for the half dime that wasn't circulating due to it's silver content. It wasn't intended to replace...
If they had called them "Morgan double eagles " would you have called them double eagles? It is good to know that you know what they are,...
Yes I see the mintmark. With the grade of the coin and the fact that it appears to have been cleaned I don't think it would be worth that much...
It is either 218 or 219, you are right about that. Can you make out any of the word LIBERTY? I can't really make it out on the picture provided.
No. As far as I know none of the Cheerios cents have ever been determined to be a WAM.
There may be some differences but the basics should be the same in both countries.
Separate names with a comma.
