Why find them not gold plated? The company stamped up a bunch of them and plated them in batches. They couldn't sell all of them so they just...
The "things" above and below the T in LIBERTY appear to be raise string like areas. If they are that is not good. A non-plated planchet would...
If the coin started out at the bottom end of it's tolerance range (4.81 grams) the loss of .07grams through wear might be accountable for the...
Yes that would work. I was thinking that the letter was an R, but if only one loop of the B and part of the second loop appeared it would look...
El Salvador is out, the centavo was struck at the mint in 69 and 73 not 72, and the diameter was only 16 mm. Liberia is doubtful as they were...
Very good, the first piece IS a partial Brockage, and the second piece is a double struck with second strike partially struck through a planchet....
Coin World Almanac, my go to reference for a great many things. I normally use the 1990 edition. The 2000 edition is not very good but I think...
Only to those who are very anal unless it is a very large prominent crack, and yours apparently isn't. Sometimes it won't affect the price even...
Rolled thin stock but that seems unlikely because there would be a lot of them. Possibly struck on a foreign planchet, the mint was still...
The edge lettering is still a separate operation. The problem with a dropped letter is one the dropped letter would be struck into the coin and...
Too bad it was taken out of the encasement. In that condition it would have been worth a lot more in the encasement. Possibly $80 to $100.
Hope you didn't contact them through the ebay message system. That is against ebay rules and grounds for getting kicked off of ebay.
Director of the mint no longer has that power. The Sec of the Treasury DOES, after a design has been in use for 25 years. He can then change the...
Letter appears to be raised, most likely the result of contact with another coin edge. (Although that should create a REVERSED raised image.)...
Just slightly out of tolerance. Tolerance is .194 grams so yours is about .02 grams heavy.
Sure looks like an 1840-O.
For what you need to establish value look at DMM 609 3.2 evidence of value here we have a. Sales receipt, invoice or bill of sale, or...
Acid soaked for a long lime in a weak acid and it was reverse side down. That is why the reverse is better than the obverse. And yes the detail...
You almost found the part about the rare coins, see my previous post. DMM 609 4.1 g.
What explains it? A lot of companies, specifically the TV coin show people plating state quarters with gold silver and platinum and then selling...
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