For starters what is the date on the half dime? The reverse type tells me it is 1860 - 1873. During that period there is only one year with an O...
The Thames and Severn Canal piece is a Conder token from the city of Briscombe Port in the county of Gloucestershire. The pictures make it hard...
The Lackey didn't lie. They changed the number on file. That doesn't change the number on existing orders. And when those orders come up it...
How about the Siberian 10 Kopecks then? :)
His 1878-S Trade dollar has a type I reverse. The date is all wrong on his 1873-S trade dollar I don't like the look of the date on his 1847...
The suggestion about checking it with a magnet is because a fair number of the counterfeits coming from China are actually using a magnetic alloy...
I would be suprised if it was that much less but in G-4 it might be possible. I would say you need to get some other examples in roughly the same...
Dinosaurs must be getting scarce.
Also the stuff we refer to as "grease" is usually not just a homogeneous semi-liquid like axle grease, it can be heavy grease, lubricating oils,...
I'd like to see a better picture. I have three possibilities, an unfinished die where the roughnesshas not been fully polished away yet, a badly...
I agree, but my English teachers always insisted it was wrong. (I'm a high school dropout because I kept flunking out in English. Which is...
The unlimited gas rationing sticker was the X sticker. This was why during the war there was a crash program to devlop synthetic rubber and to...
Which always drove me crazy in English class because a Maple Leak is an inanimate object and they always insisted that inanimate objects could not...
I agree it's a fake, but to be an effective report you have to be able to explain to the people at eBay, who know nothing about coins, exactly how...
None of them hold a candle next to the Yap Islands stone money "coins"
They symbolized the connection by water of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Well your getting into another small can of worms there. If this was a Large cent, in EAC we would call them die states, but in the error...
I'd say struck through grease. If this was struck through a partial very late stage capped die I was expect to see a sharp demarcation at the...
As a general rule an "error" is a coin that come about through a one time occurrence such as say an off-center strike. After it happened the...
You can have both obv and rev dies misaligned and still not be an off center strike. The die in the collar can be misaligned to one side, just...
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