All fake, and the third one isn't a fantasy, it is a counterfeit of a pattern piece.
UH Larry, that coin wouldn't happen to be in an NGC slab would it?? The reason I ask is be cause if so it is another example of their typical...
OK, it isn't magnetic. What does it weigh? (Need to eliminate the possibility of a cent struck on a dime planchet.)
I believe I have seen cobs in PCGS, NGC, and ANACS slabs (Even though at the time ANACS said they would not slab cobs) But the best thing to do...
The problem is trying to know the thickness of the plating layer. Just ran some math an if th plating is one ten thousandth of an inch thick, at...
It's a fake.
So you know this one is real because you have a fake coin that is EXACTLY like it except that it is very different. OK.
Too heavy to be missing the clad layers.
Nowhere in that article does it say that those four designs are the finalists. What it says is that the 18 designs fall into four groups Capital...
Sorry double post.
You have to make sure you are talking about the same thing here. The PROOF sets have not been sealed since 1999 and can be opened and closed...
Where do you get the information that 2 and 13 are still in the running? The other two were the recommendations of the two advisory committees, I...
Although fake ICG shells were produced back in 2002, we were able to stop the firm using the shells from continuing to do so and no fake ICG slabs...
Actually it was used in 1803 and then later used to strike 1802's. The reverse die comes perfect on the earliest 1803's and then with clashmarks...
A broadstrike is created when the collar is not properly in place. Without the collar to restrain it the planchet expands outward under the force...
I don't believe the S is shaped right either for a 1913.
That holder is from August or Sept of 2001. (I forget which and I don't have the book here with me to refresh my memory.) That particular holder...
Maybe two more decades. In year #8 the Secretary of the Treasury has the option to decide to go around all the states again. And yes these are...
And it would just about guarantee a coin shortage as well as everyone who knew there was some rare new cent , nickel or whatever, but didn't know...
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