I daresay fire is not a durable store of value.
Think of the grease filled dies again . . . if those recessed are filled, where exactly does the metal go that was intended to fill those...
Don't forget though, that gold was a valuable commodity millenia before we had an energy economy. Many folks lose sight of the fact that the...
When the cost of nuclear bombardment becomes "cheap", yes, it might then be time to worry.
That's no bite at all, @eddiespin. The cloth merely displaced planchet metal. Consider that cloth is a solid, while grease is only a semi-solid,...
Yeah, I imagine it has to be some sort of fabric the press operators keep on hand for wiping grease & grime off of the tooling, or a rag left...
Certainly not on the press floor. That would violate OSHA regs . . . and common sense.
Concur . . . looks like thru cloth.
Looks like an ostrich . . . with a really short neck.
Consider, if you will, that the cost of polishing a zinc blank before plating would exceed the saved difference in material cost between the...
A great-looking example. Surely the result of delamination of the plated planchet before strike.
Unc Details - Scratch No CAC
What are the lines I see from the middle of the headdress to star 9 and from the “D” in “UNITED” to the olive leaves?
In my mind this is too much money for a coin which is still quite available in original rolls . . . an expensive lotto ticket.
Wow, now that'za quarter!
Ouch!
Yeah . . . on second thought, while the coin is distinctly soft of strike, it is also AU. I still have a really hard time believing this might...
I'd take the money. You are almost certain to gain much more satisfaction out of many other coins you could buy with that much money. As for...
Unc details no CAC. Like the retained cud at 10:00 on the reverse too.
Great looking coin. Definitely looks mint state. Although marks might be hiding beneath the toning, I'll say MS64.
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