And when the portrait does change the direction will reverse with the bust facing left. Since at least the late 1600's or early 1700's by...
I'm 98% sure what you have is a 1940 proof set where the cello bags have been replaced with polybags (probably because the cellophane was...
Something tells me that someone has gotten the Chinese counterfeiters to pair up some obv dies and strike double headed copper 1943 cents. (Looks...
I first thought they were on the coin but after seeing some images of the packaging for some of these without the coin I'm no longer sure....
The mintmark style is also wrong for the 1911-S. The 11-S has the same mintmark style as seen on the 1909-S, compact with parallel sides and the...
I think it's real.
I'm here a litle late but I'll add my seconding to Marshall's confirmation.
Yes you can grade them, and it does not destroy the meaning of uncirculated (A coin having no wear whatsoever), because they can be graded AU...
For right now DO NOT take the coins out of the bags. I wish you had pictures because what you are describing sounds a whole lot like a 1940 proof...
If the planchet is internally flawed (such as a large internal lamination) the result can be what is called a dumb planchet that will not "ring"...
I'm a fanatic, and I don' have much of a life so I have the chance to study or read alot about coins and I just tend to remember a lot of it (see...
How often does the mint update that coin production site? Weekly? Monthly? There may be 2011 cents in circulation that just haven't been...
Most have been easy to spot, the problem is hey are becoming more and more common. I remember back when he first stories about them appeared...
I'll say, in fact they typically deny that they have EVER changed their standards. Something which any one who has been collecting for an...
As mentioned it is a generic silver round. Silver rounds have been made by a great many companies over the users and in a great many designs (I...
I lost interest in updating/determining the value of my collection back in the mid to late 70's. i'm interested in what I have, not what it is worth.
Innocent people need to learn about what they are buying before blindly spending their money.
Not unless HSN has been around since the 1950's.
Actually there is still at least one way to get a "Mint sewn: bag. It was something they started last year after the complaints about not being...
The problem is that attribution is not part of authenticity or part of grading. The ICG guarantee does not cover attribution. In fact until just...
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