2.9 grams would be just a little over tolerance for a steel cent. the standards for the steel cent were a little loose with as mentioned two...
I don't understand how the mint selling millions of oz of silver a year could depress the spot price of silver considering the mint has to BUY...
Sounds like there had to be some inside help. The bar was inside a heavy plexiglass case. It would have been extremely hard to break it....
For a 1978 (or 1988) if you want to know if it is on a dime planchet just look at the edge and see if it is clad on a copper core.
Let's see where it is in about ten years. It often takes that long for Mint products to settle down to their true value.
Correct. And it is not just on gold buying and selling it covers all businesses and products.
A capped die strike and a brockage are closely related. If a coin gets stuck to say the hammer die as striking continues it makes brockages....
OK, my comments about it being the result of heat and an expanding internal gas bubble was based on his statement that the obv showed "No...
And of course the corollary: Collectors shouldn't buy coins that dealers won't or don't want to buy back at a reasonable price.
The notary seal also makes a impression in the paper. Notary seals can come as either a hand squeeze type seal or as you mentioned the older free...
Buyers have become so dependent on the TPG's that they can't make their own decisions anymore. It makes their brain hurt.
It's an error in Krause. You will note they show the bronze and the copper plated zinc both being the same diameter and the same weight. But...
Typically these people who come through the hotels like that have a permit to buy but they don't have a license for resale.
I wrote the following before I read the second page of the thread and saw that 900fine had already explained it. S-41 die state VI The reverse...
Looks like copper, too round, font is wrong. It's a copy and I'd say it's a copy of an oak tree. It definitely isn't a pine tree.
You can do a better job filling it in using a pencil eraser. Just repeatedly press the eraser down on the coin. Back before the advent of...
If it's a 2003 P it won't be a proof. And a better question, as always, is what does it weigh? If it is really silver it will be noticably...
Looks natural. As for the name, before thise series neither the dime or the half dime had the denomination on them at all. When the coins were...
I don't have any, I don't collect elongateds. But I know one of the early ones, sorry don't remember too much about it I know it has a salmon on...
Simple answer, the five cent piece is about the only pre-1960 coin you can still get in circulation. About the only other is the 1959 cent....
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