These things had a weight tolerance of believe it or not .4 grams +/- so it could have weighed as much as 11.9 grams before the hole was drilled....
What do the faces look like?
An example of the reason for this policy are all those BIN's that have popped up over the last few months selling 100 morgan or peace dollars for...
You forgot taxes which is where the rounding would occur. So three cans would be $1.74 with 7% tax (where I am) = $1.8618 rounded to $1.85 and...
Do they do online degrees? :) There are only two dealers I know of in the US that have degrees in numismatics Jonathan Kern has a BA in...
And those patents are about 23 years old now and will expire in just a few years.
I would imagine there were some in the 1950'sand possibly early 60's but probably not too many. Fifty cents was a significant sum back then and...
Unfortunately the weight and specific gravity will probably not help you much. Copper and nickel have almost identical specific gravity and...
Yes, wait until the TPG's go through one of their phases where they are not so paranoid about toning. Don't dip. Worse comes to worse here's a...
Maybe not. They said it is being returned to the finder. I'm kind of surprised it wasn't declared treasure and retained by the British Museum....
Interesting bill. It authorizes a coinage of 1/3 that of the total coinage of half dollars for each year. So 1/3 of zero since there are no...
Yep, listen to rlspears host your pictures elsewhere and embed them. you can have as many pictures as you want and no fees. And you can have big...
I love it, and if you know John you really understand the "What I think I do" picture.
OK I was unaware they had changed the 25/3 designation to a second 25/4/2 die. There is still a problem. The same book that the PCGS site...
I think the article is full of it. I SERIOUSLY doubt that any machine recognizes coins by counting the reeds on the edge. And you notice that it...
Actually his budget proposal included language to allow the mint to research for material to make such a change. The same legislation he signed...
That is where the mint is really falling down. The circulation coins have to be low flat relief slugs, but the commemoratives don't have the same...
It appears to have at least three impressions, not two, none of the impressions seem to be deep into the coin, there are traces of the reverse...
Really, I didn't know about the die line thanks. Oh and I can see the doubling on the 4 as well.
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