They are typically gold plated hence the connection between the counterstamped date and the repeal of the gold laws allowing private ownership...
But as long as the counterstamp is readily identifiable there is still no need for a either a date on it or the underlying host coin. Yes when...
The nucleous captures the electron which combines with a proton to create a neutron so the number of neutrons increases by one and the number of...
Is the 2009 mint set even out yet?
It's a piece of plastic. They have rediscovered the the coin testing balances of the 19th century.
There are several different isotopes of radioactive gold http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/iso079.html It looks like only the lighter ones...
Actually the mints operating budget does come from the seniorage of the coin they produce not from tax dollars. They don't normally get...
NO. YES This is a bit complicated but here goes Proof sets for 1968 through 1970, dimes and quarters copper nickel clad, half dollars 40%...
6 and 8 ARE the same coin. I believe 8 was the first time it sold and 6 was the second. It got up to the 40K level in the pre-sale bidding and...
I hear the set will have five coins, they will all be round and have Lincoln on them. Reports are that one of the coins will be bigger than the...
Technically all elements could be considered to be "radioactive" since the very protons they are made of in theory undergo decay. But the...
No they are telling the truth. They can order cents, but they can not specifically order the Log cabin or Formative years cents. They can order...
If the coin you are talking about is the one in the pictures in the 8th post then don't worry about it being "sealed" because it isn't. It is...
And that is jutst what the 2003 cent did, it grew spots. (The 63 proof also became spoted but as I believe it was GD said if you went back to the...
Has actually happened to me. I brought it to their attention and they told me to just eep them. So I ate them. I do things like that all the...
And I believe those are for Satin finish pieces out of the mint sets. A couple years back they made a big deal out of certifying the first MS-70...
Uhhh Leadfoot your links just go to a picture of the reverse of an 1857 large cent. There is no complete thread with all the varieties from PCGS...
I'd say the coin is real, it's a S-11b or 11c don't know which subvariety because I can't see the edge, sharpness G-4/AG-3 rough and porous,...
That's not a COIN, that is an NCLT thingy.
Becaue the LP1 could not be distributed until the huge backlog of circulated coins that everyone had cashed in due to the bad economy had been...
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