Or in December when they sometimes strike a stockpile of coins to have ready for the first of the year. It doesn't happen often but there are a...
Subscribe to the graysheet and start plugging data into an excel spreadsheet. Excel can create charts/graphs. Coin world used to have...
I would say it is probably NOT a coin. I think it is a charm.
You bon't have to have those to be a coin. The early British hammered coins didn't have them. That's not rim damage, it was "grown" without a...
They have the other compositions wrong as well.
Looks like a reasonable assumption.
And if he told the truth some veterans organization is going to get a windfall of almost a dollar.
It took 21 posts for you folks to figure this out?
A pure nickel plating would be magnetic. Nickel is magnetic but it loses that property when the alloy of other metals reaches about 12%. I also...
The NGC coin is probably showing both dates as well since the slab label identifies it as a 1990 cent struck over a 1990 P dime. Any dual...
I'm surprised it hasn't lost more weight than that. Of course we don't what the actual weight was when it started. I like the scale too. What...
I purchased a 1938 set from a man who bought it direct from the mint. He purchased one of each coin and the coins were still in the plastic...
Lots of people that work at firms that do metal plating plate all kinds of things just for fun or out of boredom. I think there may be some...
The pictures aren't the best but I would have to agree.
Postage scales are accurate to .1 oz or about 3 grams so they can't really tel you anything. From the last set of pictures I agree with the acid...
Yes it is a double error the first error is it is a MAD and far enough off that a little bit of the design is missing. The second error was...
Today they are retired after 3 - 5K coins but back then they not only used them longer, but they would also repolish and continue using them....
Obviously we don't and all these pre-1970 coins in slabs MUST be counterfeits. :rolleyes:
I must be blind I looked all over that page when I was making up my last post and couldn't find it. But you're right there it is.
because the MS or proof coins has nothing on it's surface. Then here comes the fingerprint. And that print tones and etches itself into the...
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