I'd say overpolished die and it is making the mintmark thin and caused the loss of the serif.
True, but how do you handle a one ton bag of cents? And for the dealers using that method, how many of those bags do they have to purchase and...
Do you know how many times they have "all been accounted for"? After the gld recall and melt there were two in the Smitsonial and all the rest...
I agree they will probably continue to hold them until the forfeiture hearings. Just seems odd to me because the judge has already ruled that the...
They'd also be better if you took it out of the slab. :D
No different than the TV ads for silver dollars where they promise that they will all be in brilliant uncirculated to fine condition.
Having to return the coins will not make them legal, the court judgement was simply that the government had overstepped their bounds by...
At the Chicago International show this year I purchased a mint state 1795 farthing Conder token still in the auction flip from Allan Davissons...
Grinding wheel will take them right off. (along with everything else.)
As far as I know only one Cheerios package has turned up as not having the prototype coin.
There is no sixth coin and the articles has errors in it. For one thing the case does not have six holes in it, it has eight. It was made up for...
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If it is vinyl then PVC is present whether it is pliable or not, that is what vinyl IS Polyvinyl chloride PVC. Having said that I would think...
Never seriously. It was seriously done everywhere else in the world and it succeeded. Here we try with halfway measurs and if anyone complains...
They keep calling this thing a coin but I'm not even sure it is NCLT. I've not seen a denomination, or a claim for what country it is supposed to...
Thanks for showing the back. That indicates that it is a hammer or squeeze job and not a mint error. (The fact that the letters are incuse and...
I don't think they would bodybag it but they would just list it as a normal coin and most likely not indicate the DDO.
Off-center die clashes CAN happen but they are rare. However with the pictures provided I would have to agree that I see no evidence of this.
And then they had him make so many changes to the design that the final result wound up being a very close copy of a design submtted by another...
They do the first day covers. I don't know if they do any of the other sets.
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