Also you were right about the rims. The grease plus the planchet in the coining chamber means there is more "material" than expected in the...
I'm not sure what it is. Part of me says PMD, but the letters on the rim, the bust and above LIBERTY all appear to be raised not incused as you...
Only thing I can get from the disjointed rant in the OP is that I assume he doesn't agree with the MS67RB grade.
I'm going to guess that it stands for 1/2 Bolivar (Venesuala) or 1/2 Bolivanio (Bolivia). Probably Bolivia. Their system at the time was 100...
The cops are wrong. No, any legal tender form of payment is a legal attempt to satisfy the debt. It may still be refused and the debt is not...
They did something like that back in 1987 with the Constitution commemoratives. They had them at K-Mart. K-Mart had them for $235 a set and had...
I did say SOMETIMES. :)
OK I see two quarters. Which one are you asking about? I suspect the darker one which looks like environmental discoloration.
Never mind, was a post pointing out how the prices from 1970 didn't keep up with inflation, but I see it has already been done.
Of course none were ever struck at the Manila branch mint.
It looks good to me. And I would say it is worth significantly more than melt.
The NGC boxes tend to be the preferred boxes because they will hold most everyone's slabs, the PCGS won't hold NGC's well. The problem is that...
Sometimes a details coin can be changed into a problem free coin simply by resubmitting it.
Back when I started collecting and was a "YN" (the term didn't exist then) the young kids couldn't afford a Morgan Dollar in MS then either. They...
Believe it or not most people ARE honest. Sure you will get the occasional person who will that the refund and keep the coin, but the vast...
Not to mention it would have to bea variety that no one has ever seen before. There are no known 1981 no mintmark proof varieties.
First two are laminations, the third one is a severely worn die.
From 1989 to 1991 they did not have barcodes, from 1991 to April 2000 they were 17 character.
Because it contains nearly an oz of copper. This was back when a coin was expected to have close to its face value in metal content. At that...
They are also sold by the mint in bags and rolls for a premium. They haven't made the satin finish coins since 2010 so I don't know what they...
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