Actually they have reduced the deficit by close to a billion dollars. Seigniorage and profits from collector sales resulted in somewhere close...
Gosh it must be a slow news day to be recycling stories from two years ago. (MSN not the OP. In fact it must be a slow week because this story...
I don't know. First you'd have to find a public pay phone. I don't know about France but that is getting difficult to do here in the US....
I would imagine there are probably some records that could tell us a few things if we could find them. The first two questions are "At that time...
You might call it a broadstrike wannabe. On a broadstrike the collar is missing completely (The collar is stuck in a jammed down position and the...
I think you are looking at a greaser. "Weak Strike" isn't going to fly. The presses were set for striking the much harder steel planchets so the...
Seldom. Your coin has been submitted at least three times. It has been closely examined by at least nine highly qualified professional graders....
Not if you are living in some of the most expensive areas of the country to live in. But David Hall is not a "grader". The dealer owners still...
Accurately graded, nice appearance for the grade and cheap. No surprise it disappeared quickly.
Looks to me like polishing compound. Someone rubbed some kind of polishing compound on it years ago, then gave it a quick wipe that didn't remove...
Nothing wrong with nice circulated coins. They were made with a job to do and they have clearly done their duty with honor.
Doesn't help much when you measure your capped bust half and find they vary between 32.2 to 32.9 mm (Standard is 32.5mm). 32 mm is too small and...
Gasparro's design actually is closer to a cross between the Peace dollar and Joseph Wrights 1793 Liberty cap half cent. Wright took his...
I list about 23 generations of PCGS production slabs. (That doesn't include all the different variations of specialty labels that can be found....
Partial collar strike, also known as a railroad rim from it's resemblance to the wheel of a railroad car. This is a very nice example. The first...
Only three people outbid me. Four way snipefest in the last five seconds taking it from $112 to $207.
Tried and missed.
Yeah you hear that a lot. Apparently all the gradable coins were all slabbed long ago and no one is submitting coins to the TPG's anymore. This...
Typically yes it is since it is punched in by hand and hubbed into the die with a multi-ton press. Start with a die that has the mintmark weakly...
The open collar is the real problem for airtites, albums etc on the early coins. Due to the open collar all the coins are different sizes so you...
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