The mint does these surveys from time to time but they don't send them to everyone.
13 what? Wilson dies? Considering they only struck about 6000 Wilson "dollars" I doubt there would have been 13 dies. The probable reason the...
It's actually easier to see the crack where it come up from the bases of the letters through the ERI and especially through the center of the C.
I haven't seen a copy of that on the market in years. It works but it takes some getting used to, and it has helped in the cherrypicking of some...
If you contact the companies they can probably tell you if they are archival or what they are made of.
And then the collectors would complain that the mint changed the rules and ruined the aftermarket and cheated because they got all those early...
They could but that would eventually break things up too much. When they added the page for the Bicentennials that broke it up so all the...
Fake, without a doubt.
1830 N-4 mid die stage which makes it a large letter. There is only one small letter reverse and that in N-6. On the small letter (actually med...
If they are planning on changing the 7070 it is probably to add more of the recent types. After all when does the current 7070 end, and how many...
Be happy they are updating the tracking!
I'd say your local dealer, like most local dealers knows nothing about errors. Sell it to him, maybe he'll learn.
I haven't subscribed to Coin World for several years.
Thank you Mike that explains the strong memorial that shouldn't be there. I never considered a die clash of the reverse die and the late stage...
Adjustment marks on the planchet before striking would be MORE substantial on the devices than in the fields. The fields of the dies are the...
The problem is that by the time the brockage/capped die is a late enough stage for the Lincoln to be showing through that strongly, the memorial...
The US has no laws against exporting its coins (other than large quantities of cents and nickels) The real question is what are YOUR countries...
I was just discussing what it LOOKED like I'm not saying that is what it is because there are problems with the descripition I gave that I think...
The treatment of the jacket and bowtie are different, the male pattern balding is a little more prominent on the second one and a bit more extensive.
It's an expression typically expressed by someone who is or feels he is getting away with something he is not supposed to be getting away with....
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