Basically you are asking can two planchets enter the coining chamber at the same time and be struck so that you have two one sided coins. Yes it...
Definitely looks fake. Can't help if this was a "plant" by the bullion buyers to get some free publicity and to shake some more stuff loose by...
I think the early First Spouse coins will wind up being melt price coins, there were just too many of them. But some of the more recent ones do...
Due to the hype around the real 55 DDO and the promotion that have done on these die deteriorated coins a nice one like this might go for 50 cents...
Bingo, that is exactly what causes it. You can sometimes find fake double or tripple struck coins made using that method. Press a coin into a...
A high power laser could affect a coin and by high power we are talking in the kilowatts and up range, but a "high power" laser pointer is...
I don't think it is a lamination, surfaces in the depressed area seem too smooth. I'm thinking a strikethrough. possibly through part of the clad...
Probably not. Sure prices were lower but so were incomes. If you were to look at a "basket of staples" from back when I first got interested in...
Should have stuck with the 7070, it's cheaper.
Has this coin been slabbed? And if so was it by PCGS? Because what I am seeing looks a lot like the "rubber" gasket wrapping over the rim of the...
The die wasn't completely filled with grease, that is why the details partially show. The linear pattern is from roller marks on the original...
No, there were 19 different obv dies used, and 20 rev dies. Dies were not always changed in pairs and if one die failed it was just replaced with...
In my opinion, No. The rattlers, being the first slabs from PCGS, were often said to have been graded more conservatively than todays grading....
Actually the NGC edgeview holders date back to 2002, but they never really did anything with them. They revived them in 2007 for use with the...
Very true, they have also publicly denied it.
Gets rid of all those distracting bumps and letters too.
I don't believe Dansco makes an album that holds the entire US type set. Whitman used to and that is the one that I started with. Still need 11...
Now to try and actually answer his first question. It is possible that the choice to use that orientation may have been deliberate simply to...
What makes them Red? The Red happens to be the natural color of copper. As it reacts with other chemicals it forms compounds that result in the...
Why? In this case Detecto is absolutely correct. Really? What steel coins do you have a lot of experience using? What was it about them that...
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