Cladking would be the best person to know exacly when they stopped just putting regular business strikes in the mint sets. I also believe it was...
image from 1805 small 5 auction [IMG] There are two genuine small 5 varieties C-2 is raree, and C-3 is very rare. On C-2 the gap between the...
You should look at ALL post 1993 Philadelphia for wide AM's. We know it happened in those years an there is the POTENTIAL that it could have...
The reason you haven't been able to locate a MS66 2009-D is because the Fed has not released them yet. Collectors have been looking for ANY...
Most likey he does NOT. He never really answered the question about what the date was, but he did ask if there was a difference in the value of...
No they were intended to be a replcement for the mercury dime which would most likely have been replaced in 1942 had the war not intervined. And...
For some reason I've never really cared for this piece too much. I just see it as a fantasy piece probably manufactured for collectors. Many...
As mentioned they made Lincoln cents for several years, and they also struck quarters for circulation 1976 - 1979. These did not have mintmarks...
That was one way, another was to simply use a card that gives cash back on purchases The problem isn't to get the coins into the banks, they want...
I agree with the others, I suspect your scale is not accurate. Try weighing some recent Zincoln cents. They should weigh about the same as a...
I have seen IH and even a wheat cent, and I own a half cent with the alteration.
NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! The cardboard 2X2 did have PVC windows briefly, about 50 to 60 years ago. Almost all cardboard 2X2's were made first with...
Yes it was, and earlier, just not as openly as it is today, unfortunately.
Reminds me of something I saw years ago at the Kentucky State show. There was a dealer there that specialized in gold and he had one of those...
Simple way to understand why they have to keep making more. In 2004 (last year I have figures for) they struck 13,171,000,000 coins for...
Depends on how you want to round it. It's actually .77345 ounces.
You'll find al of that accounted for in the Annual Mint Report (or at least it used to be. The annual mint report has gotten pretty crummy in the...
Not even close to 1155. Note the point where Newtons nose in pointing. On 1155 it points to the first A in Isaac, and on the reverse the spear...
They had samples at last years fall's Michigan State show and they were active at Central States in Cincinnati this past spring.
That surprised me because it doesn't fit with what I remembered about silver solder so I've been doing some checking and all the silver solders I...
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