They look good to me. Proper luster. A very thin plating might be able to retain the luster. I see no plating bubbles. As for oxidation if...
Zinc rot
This is from a bulk submission where a minimum numerical grade was specified. Coins that didn't make that grade were slabbed as either Brilliant...
I have never seen anything like that. I'd say it is probably very recent. I would also agree that it is probably part of a promotion.
I would agree with S-24.
They stopped striking cents back in May and they have said that they will not be striking anymore (Per link posted by MrBrklyn on the same topic)....
I would not be surprised if the medals have a protective coating on them to prevent oxidation from causing them to discolor. That would protect...
Yeah, some day you wake up, pick up your pillow and find a bunch of teeth there.
The question is will it matter? If Canada is like the US by the time next Feb rolls around most businesses will already be rounding because of...
The B-1 rev die doesn't have a dot after the C. And the attribution does check out. Doug44, the book on the bust quarters was by Browning....
What I find interesting is the process that Kaisa described is almost precisely what was being done to gold coins back in the 1860's to remove...
They definitely look like fakes to me.
Only difference between the regular and premier proof sets was a fancier holder. (And I don't mean the Prestige proof sets, they had a silver...
And if he meant 1/4 oz gold eagles the answer is 4.7 The 5 pound coin only has 36.62 grams of gold in it.
The one question everyone seems to forget about these things is "Was the Mint legally authorized to strike silver coins at that time?" And the...
And if I find a previously unknown archaeological site the coins are taken away from me and sold by the government to fund more digs. So I have...
Technically it isn't either one, it is what would be called a die stage, just another step in the life of the die from new until it is retired....
NGC's guarantee does not cover attributions so the only thing they would be obligated to do would be to reholder it as the large date. No...
You have all missed the question he asked. He wanted to know how they justified eliminating the redemption. The simple answer is they DIDN'T...
This is correct. What many people do not realize is that each of these extensions specified which coins would be legal tender and for how long....
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