The piece is cataloged in Dalton and Hamer as Middlesex 1049. It is rated as Scarce which would mean maybe a few hundred pieces known. If these...
First English milled coins were issued by Elizabeth I in the 1560's. Here is an image of a milled English sixpence of Elizabeth I from 1562...
Believe it or not, Anthony's family, which was consulted on the design, were not happy with it either. But they felt that the designer had made...
No, if you have held the coin for over a year it still qualifies as a long term capital gain and is taxable at the rate of 28% Any gain, no...
Milled coinage dates back more than 100 years earlier than that. The first English milled coins were made in the early 1560's and they were made...
Have you told the dealer this? Next time he has a bunch he may just give you that notice.
Of course if it is short it is coming out of your check. They may not be highly trained in spotting counterfeit bills, but if you spend your...
The collection was put into storage several years ago and there are currently no plans (or funds) to put it back on display. The best you will...
Most likely what he has is a misaligned die. If so, yes they are an error, but they are a very minor error and are so common that in most cases...
Of course they can. Or at least they can pass a law at any time that requires you to hand them over. The fact that back in 1934 they modified...
I don't know, I've never examined them with an eye toward trying to determine that. Most likely the tree side was the hammer die. It is...
Nickel is NOT weakly magnetic it is strongly magnetic. There are three elements that are magnetic at room temperature, Iron, Nickel, and Cobalt....
The earliest generally accepted US proof are a few 1817 large cents.
That's about right. It isn't an off-center, it's a mis-aligned die. Not far enough off though to be worth a premium.
I see what is in the area she indicated, but it looks incuse to me from the photo. I'd say it is most likely Post Mint Damage as well.
Used to have a lot of truth. I didn't know they now had handheld x-Ray Flourescence spectrometers. Used to be these were very expensive large...
They didn't use a close collar on those so they would all be a little "broadstruck". So it may not be a mint error. Also minor errors on early...
It's back...
Dealer in Louisville by the name of Johnny Hurst used to make these out of 1910's by altering the 0 to a 3. He made thousands of these over the...
Interesting quiz. 2 wrong, one because I was unfamiliar with the material in the question, and the other because I misread it. 93.94%
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