The rising silver value of the coins has overcome the numismatic value. Second point is that the numismedia prices don't represent their actual...
I'd call it severe damage.
Looks real to me, XF-40 details, harshly cleaned, net VG-F worth about 7 or 8 dollars now.
But you still need the passport to get back into the country. He said he lived close to the border. So it may not be taht difficult to find...
Full brockage broadstrike. Coin stuck to the obv die, second planchet fed in below it, and the stuck to the lower die when it retracted so it...
I did say "As a rule". Frankly I wouldn't pay more for a three legged buffalo than a couple dollars as a curiosity. Same goes for a 22 plain...
Mintmarks were added at Philadelphia. I don't believe the branch mints did their own hardening of the dies and they would not have been able to...
They won't be rare but they won't be as common as the State quarters were. The lowest mintage state quarter was well over 100 million. I believe...
Who's "ours"? Not the US Mint they gave up the foreign business back in 1984. They also gave up producing their own strip except for cents and...
Here in Indiana it's the law that you MUST card everyone no matter how old they look.
There seems to be some kind of idea that if they didn't have the no melting law people would be melting them down in their backyard furnaces....
Not when you consider all the effort it takes to produce them. they are not like a coin where you strike it your done with it. The relief on the...
Since the initials are on the original model they can't be left off. They are raise don the coin so they are incuse in the die. So there are...
Die deterioration doubling from badly worn dies.
Sure there are, there are half cents, and bust halves, and state coppers!
And 40 years later, before silver went crazy, they were still available at around issue price or a little less. Issue price was $5. No as a...
That's true, that coin was worth about $40 then. :)
Sorry, I was not trying to be insulting. As cpm9ball pointed out in numismatics the term fantasy means something that pretends to be a coin that...
If it dropped to $15 I'd be wondering if I was going to have to live ALL of the 1980's over again. A lot of people have said that they would be...
It comes from trying to maintain the myth that grading standards have never changed and that a grade from 1987 is exactly the same as one from...
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