If it was short for Japanese I would not expect it to have a period after each letter.
The fact that the detail is so well struck up on such an incredibly thin planchet is the key that it is a acid soaked coin. If you actually...
I've seen several reports of these things and about the only thing I think they could be would be lathe lines from a poorly turned die blank.
N-3 is what I came up with too, but my second edition of Grellman doesn't mention the doubling at the top of the 1.
Cent looks like it could be a strike through, the nickel is a nice xample of a lamination error , and the dime looks like machine doubling....
That's because ALL of the 1978 proof coins have blob or "filled" S mintmarks. Sometimes the proofs are spent because the sets are given to a none...
And then sold them in 2000 or so. Back then they were up to the $300 a set range. Considering they really aren't any rarer than the other years...
My favorite obscure US gold coins were the one and four pound coins minted in 1945 to pay the Saudis for oil during the war.
Until 1840 they used individual digit punches for the dates, in 1840 they experimented with two digit punches and in 1841 switched over completely...
Usually they harvest the serial numbers from genuine coins on the Heritage Auctions Archives
The magic quarters are why i asked it it was strongly magnetic all over or just in one area. One way they used to make them was to drill into...
Why pay $20 to $30 to encapsiulate a $14 coin? It's not like you need them to tell you what it is or whether it is genuine. Does grade really...
Electroplating maybe, but there were ways of putting a silver coating on base metals LONG before 1857. (There were silver coated base metal coins...
Frankly the 1907 Coronet in 55 - 60 IS basically a bullion coin. It will go up and down pretty much based on the spot price of gold and it will...
Probably not because I would want to see it first. If I am buying an expensive coin I prefer to see it first. From an established dealer that I...
European grading tends to be more strict typically about one grade higher. What they would call a Fine we would call a VF, their VF our XF-40,...
Well that depends. If you are selling to an experienced collector that's true, they will judge based on the coin not the slab. But selling to a...
I believe that site give you the theoretical value based on spot. You would not get that much from a dealer because one they need to make a...
The 64 may not grade as high technically, but I would rather have it than the "66" coin. So I would not pay as much for that 66 as I would for...
Try four times the size. They are twice the diameter (1.5 inch compared to 3 inch) with a surface area of 1.77 square inches compared to 7.07...
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