What's worse is that after posting that article, in order to combat the Chinese fakes NGC changed their hologram last February. They put up an...
Nice link and they mean well, but most of the information given is wrong. (Effects are right, causes are wrong. PVC is NOT a plasticizer, PVC is...
All I see are severely worn dies. Color is odd (looks gold plated then circulated to remove much of the gold) but that could be a result of the...
Looks like poor strike and the dies don't appear to be parallel resulting in the unformed rim aon the obverse and the weak corresponding rims on...
No they are not the same. They are not making the Proof ASE because they are using the planchets for the bullion ASE, not the Commems.
R-4 is 75 - 200. Yes that sounds really small, but most large cent varieties don't start bringing much of a premium over type coin money until...
They can. 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 they made them for four years and you can collect every single year. Just because the mint makes something you...
The cent should go. It serves no real purpose, and has a vanishingly small purchasing power. When the Mint and our coinage system was conceived...
Sure but if you don't have Grellmans book it isn't going to make much sense. Tip of the bust is at or just slightly right of the end of the serif...
EDTA might work, but where do you get it? The only price quote I can find, other than for EDTA as a nutrition suppliment at $59 per oz for a...
One more comment, Great Britain did not strike Sovereigns in 1918. 1918 Sovereigns were struck in India with an I mintmark and Australia with M,...
I believe putting the country name (India) on the label is standard procedure for NGC. The I is the mintmark for the Bombay mint. True 1918 I...
It would be really hard to get that Lincoln print too considering he's buried in ten tons of concrete.
He probably means rust. Most notgeld cons are made of one of two metals, zinc, and iron. Rust tends to be a problem. Unfortunately if the coin...
I don't see what the problem is. It is a sovereign, the grade looks OK, the date is right 1918, and it IS an I mintmark for Bombay India (The...
Since you called it a 1971 and didn't include a mintmark reference I assume it is a philadelphia issue. In that case it is the same coppernickel...
Looks like it is probably a N-19 an R-4 coin.
Definitely S-1 or S-2, can't tell for sure which with the low grade and the angled photo. Not enough of the reverse can be made out.
But still within th tolerance range for a normal quarter. High end of the tolerance range is 5.897 or on a scale good to one decimal place 5.9 grams.
I agree partial collar strike.
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