And yo are correct it was struck at the Franklin Mint. That little "winged F" at the lower right by the eagle is the Franklin Mint mintmark.
SBA's lend period atmosphere at Renaissance fairs? Now I know I'm getting old.
You can't use the positioning of the text and double eagle on the hologram for determining authenticity of th slab because they DO tend to drift...
WCG has been around for at least 7 years. It was listed in the Slabbook.
He may wind up with skin irritation from the loss of the oils in his outer epidermal layers, and it would be rather unpleasant on mucus membranes...
The term "rattler" can be used for any of the first five holder varieties from PCGS but is generally reserved for just the first one (PCGS 1)....
And obviously the people they are selling them to don't know that obv and rev don't go together either , so it doesn't really matter. :) Toad...
It's a very nice coin, but those are rim bumps. This appears to be die state I or II and States III and IV have nothing like that around the rims...
So we're at three so far. I haven' missed a Cincinnati one since 1982,but after this year I'm out for at least the next two years.
I will be there Thursday evening thru Sunday morning
It probably already is. Since Jan 1 2001 2 cents 6 five cent 2 dimes 66 quarters 2 halves 11 dollars Total 89 coins so far not including commems...
Is the serial number all zeros?
I'm going to have to get together with him. He has several companies I haven't seen before, and I have several companies that he doesn't have listed.
He's been aroun for some time. He originally started out marketing NGC multi-coin look a like holders and then started his own grading service...
BITE YOUR TONGUE! And the list of 107 companies was one I posted on the PCGS forum back in June of 2004. There have been quite a few more...
Stella, what about my identification? Did I get it right?
James Conder DID write the standard reference for these tokens (the standard from 1798 to 1890) and that is why they are known as Conder tokens....
I' say those of us who consider it to be a single strike is because both images are created by a single cycling of the press. The dies come...
I think the color is just toning or discoloration. As for the "reversal of colors", when the blanks a punched from the strip the action of the...
Thanks Mike, I recognized the saddle strike but I missed the chain strike.
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