You're not the only one. So far I have seen exactly three coins, one birthplace and two formative years.
Patriotic obv 68 rev 198 in copper R-4 Both obv and rev dies attributed to Emil Sigel 177 William St New York City NY. Sigel was a prolific die...
Yep and the reports on the alternate compositions isn't due til the end of the year. Then the results will have to be debated and decisions made....
On the reverse of KM 14 the stars flanking the date are larger and the lettering is thicker with heavier serifs.
One other thing you should notice about the rarity scales as well R8 thru R-5 are listed as so many known, but once you get past R-5 it becomes...
There can be advantages to this. It can allow you to distribute the profit among the coins so at to reduce tax liability, or you can lump the...
Could be a major chipped die, or it could be solder, I can't tell which.
Oh I kind of doubt that. People didn't have too much trouble getting 15 to 20 sets of the 25th anniversary sets. Those people who want multiples...
Simply put the survival rate of the early cents was much lower than those of the later ones. You don't see BU rolls of say 1910 Lincolns, but BU...
Not too surprising since the quiz was on the BBC news magazine.
In Coin World a week or two ago they said the mintage of the Chester A Arthur coins was going to be 5.74 million coins from each mint.
I know of two real ones that have come on the market in the past twelve months that were bought at flea markets for $1.
Some of mine were posted in the Old Fort Coin Club PDF link. The Brazil and Japanese were not mine, but the rest were. I also have some other...
Didn't do too bad, 5/7.
I agree, there will be no reduction in crime and a loss of income to the community from businesses leaving the area. You may be right about some...
The graders just get the coin in a flip. They do not see the original packaging. The clerks that unpack the shipments do crack them out and put...
I come up with N-5 on the 1817 as well. It's an R-3. The 1816 is N-4, R-2.
In the other forum I do believe they mentioned that they were going to move the show down the road to a friendlier community.
Subscriptions maybe?
As a rule I would not expect it to lower the grade except that I would expect it to keep an otherwise perfect coin from receiving a 70 grade.
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