Nickel plated cent. Enough nickel there to make it weakly magnetic. Several possibilities, to fool someone, for use in jewelery, someone...
So in 1998 they had almost $2.5 million in an endowment for building that memorial, half of it collected from coin collectors. I wonder how much...
And that doesn't include your shipping and insurance to get it there. I've never understood that. Errors are a specialized field and those who...
Give it time. This is something new and this is the first item they have used the counter and end date on. If it works out well they many start...
The problem is some people WANT to be treated like kings or gods.
You need a lot of imagination to see it on any of the 14/3 overdate buffalos. Typically the only thing that shows is a little "nub" at the top of...
This is a die struck fake. Probably from cast dies. I;m also not convinced they used a 1943 cent for the original model. i don't think the...
If you mean the marks on the side with the head those are simply marks on the original planchet that were not wiped out by the strike. The...
#3 is a piece of copper that has been squeezed between two large cents (I think late middle dates 1835 - 39) #1 I'm thinking from the crudeness...
Which is why there are no modern MS or PF 70 coins in PCGS or NGC holders. :)
Lots of people suggest that possibility but as far as I know there has never been an actual case of a GPS unit being found in one of these...
Another good choice would be Franklin halves. There are no expensive key dates in the set, a avg circ set can be put together for not a lot over...
On Cherd's % of annual income measure I'm around the 7 to 10% range
Probably for negligence. Even if you have a policy that covers them in transit the company usually has an out if you allow them to be stolen...
It also boils down to "I don't want to write and ask what happened (because he won't call and believes everything should be in writing), I'd...
Can't be a 56 because it has an S mintmark and San Francisco closed in 55. Can't be a 36-S because the 3 didn't curve down like that in 36. the...
I agree acid soaked.
I'd say it is real. If this had been a squeeze job then the rest of the coin away from the indent would still show a good strike. In this case a...
Major doubled die. Pivoted hub doubling (don't remember the class) Pivot point is somewhere around 8:00 and I think a little in from the rim....
He is thinking someone may have plated a copper plated zinc cent to make it look like a non-plated planchet coin. One thing you have to be...
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