Not only does no one win, the seller LOSES. If he sets a reserve he has to pay a percentage of the reserve as a fee to ebay (flat fee of $2 up to...
There is a person who repairs coins, he advertises in the classified section of The Numismatist (at least he use to) the name I believe is Alan...
Actually most of the 69-S DDO cents confiscated by the Secret Service were destroyed, not returned.
OK, I'm stumped. The light weight does seem to require it to be an off planchet. However the reeding all the way around, but yet with a smaller...
Penny Whimsy is good, but not the 1990 or later edition. Many people like the 1976 edition but I prefer the 1958 or 1965 editions. Even better...
The use of "America the Beautiful" may depend on whether or not the Mint or the Treasury have actually applied for a Trademark of the phrase as...
One question you didn't answer, does the reeding go all the way around the coin, or is it only on one side of the coin? If it is just on one side...
The problem is it is MUCH more difficult to create a new design plate for the currency than it is to create a new design die for the coinage....
OK for starters the old bust dolars WERE heavier but the 29.96 gram figure given above is wrong, it's 26.96 grams. The fineness was lower though...
I posted this elsewhere, the US Mint uses different terms internally than what the numismatic hobby does. What they call Proof, we call Proof....
Yes, but not many of them.
Yes it might be possible. In 1965 the Denver mint struck both 90% and 40% silver halves.
Not always, sometimes just one die of a pair is swapped out. And in late 1958 they would have been striking both designs at the same time. Still...
At the current exchange rate $4,032,237 Bullion value as of 2:45 PM EST 6/25/10 $4,035,369 or $3,132 less than the bullion value
It doesn't look to me like the reeding all that well preserved. And the very fact that it IS reeded tells us that at one time it must have dad...
Skid, are you any relation to Peter Skidmore?
When the mint finds a problem on a coin and rejects it they run it trough the "waffler" to "cancel" it and render it into a non-legal tender piece...
Small overlaps (one or two letters) are not that unusual. Beyond that the more overlap the rarer they are and they will start bringing a...
An EXTENDED soaking in vinegar will do the trick. The acetic acid attacks the copper more readily than the coppernickel alloy. If you lok...
That makes three of us that believe them to be scratches.
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