I see the die clash and the repunched date. I don't think it is a clogged die, I suspect a tapered planchet.
I'd say someone removed the word. Why they would do that I don't know.
The Mint had a GREAT deal of trouble with the 25% Nickel 75% Copper alloy. It was much much harder than the bronze, silver and gold alloys and...
Hard times token, Low-97 HT-293 R-1 There are three varieties of this token Low 95 and 97 are common Low 96 is very rare, They all have the...
The description of what you would be getting from the Bradford exchange doesn't make any sense either. If you got two coins of each design from...
But weight tolerances for the planchets are greater than the slight differences in the 1.069 to 1.084 figures. The copper nickel clad dollar can...
Good then I was right in post #20.
If you are familiar with how this series looks you would see a LOT of errors in it. The bust is mishappen, the lettering font is wrong, the font...
And you do have to realize that NGC has only been added the images to the certificate verification for a little over a year. Any coins certified...
Wow, stumble across a magazine and become "The Expert". Sure, post them I'll give it a go!
I would say the thickness of the planchet is the key to the a and b designations. The thick plain edge and thin lettered edge coins are actually...
Well 60 million times 5 issues is 300 million or about one third to one sixth the number of quarters produced annually in the five years before...
So open the set and straighten the quarter.
It's been awhile since I've seen a mint production report, but the last time I did, they hadn't even made any nickels so far this year. Has that...
No there isn't. The specific gravity of the 40% silver composition is 107% of that of the copper nickel clad composition. 9.53 vs 8.92 So if...
Reminds me of a "California Prooflike". They were around in the early 1970's. The fields were polished to a deep mirror finish and the devices...
The fake ANACS slabs first showed up in March of 2007. ANACS discontinued the holder style that was being faked around June 2007 and changed all...
I agree the number fonts aren'tquite right, but this is a much better fake than usually seen. Also they have apparently corrected one of the most...
Up through1998 the proof sets were sealed. (Sometimes not well, but they were sealed.) Stating with the 1999 sets they were were no longer sealed...
Just this weekend at the Greater Cincinnati show I happened to pick up a copy of the December 2004 TAMS journal which has a nice attribution guide...
Separate names with a comma.
