Well the first marking tells you it is sterling silver. The second symbol is copyright. The third is a Franklin Mint mint mark, Can't read the...
Most of the people named NewKom live in California. I would probably start there Have you checked Steven Albums two books on California tokens?...
Probably quite a bit when you consider that they think that design is close enough to a real coins design that people could confuse them thus...
You would be surprised how many non-collectors will refer to things like Liberty quarters, Liberty halves, Liberty dollars etc because they have...
In the original thread he said he was sending it to John Wexler.
The OP coin appears to have three sets of clashmarks. If you blow up the image and look at the clash of Victoria 's forehead on the reverse you...
I find this line from the article to be very interesting. So without the dollar coin program the mint, instead of paying money into the general...
That's because ebay is actually more akin to a mail bid auction where the bidding ends at a preset time. People tend to think of it as a live...
I wouldn't think that more than 10% of them on ebay at any given time are fake
Copperking, have you ever studied the production of a coining press? you mentioned in the first post that 10 machines were turning out half a...
I had the references when I attributed the coin. All I had to do was remember why I had eliminated each variety. There were only six varieties...
Don't have my references in front of me at the moment but I can remember most of the features that lead me to that conclusion. C-1 has the point...
Depends on how you figure it. In my opinion it had a purchasing power closer to today's quarter.
Problem is Pollock is from 1994, is long out of print and is hard to find. Last I knew it was running $150 to $200. Ouch! one copy on abesbooks...
At the rate the mint produces cents it would take 1,200 machines and 2,400 people at each mint. Currently the mint makes close to your half...
Yes Judd is the standard reference, but Pollock contains more background information about the individual coins. Judd talls you what there is,...
Looks like play money. There aren't a whole lot of true numismatic pieces made of plastic. Most are just play money. About the only other...
Grease wouldn't do it. Once again think about the die. On the die the AW is RAISED, not a depression you can fill with grease. You would have...
Looks like an 1809/6 C-5
One, it doesn't cost $50 million a year to store these things. Two, if it did ending the production would not save $50 million a year because...
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