No, you have to understand the life cycle of a capped die. A coin gets stuck to the hammer die, lets say its the obv die. The first few coins...
Possibly shaved off to make a love token. Love tokens on Indian heads are scarce but they do exist. Did it come that way from the mint? Almost...
Did you get ripped, almost certainly not. Did you leave some money on the table? Maybe but most likely not much if you did.
I'd call the first on an AG-3 and the second a FR-2
Some people search through mint sets looking for coins that DON'T show the satin finish well and submit them trying to get them slabbed as high...
It's supposed to be a one year only issue. But of course if it sells real well. . .
I think they were referring to the fact that the "Recent" surfacing was back in July.
They have been used in several countries. This web page shows several but they come from other countries as well. I don't collect them so I...
Or blow up a building! If you can't do either of those, burn someone in effigy.
Sold for the value of the gold plus a standard markup. Sounds like a bullion coin to me.
Even if you did have almost the entire surface of a memorial cent peel off (major lamination) and fall onto a struck dime that happened to be in...
No cheat, tokens with that heavy groove in them are typically telephone tokens. The reverse having the image of an old fashioned rotary phone dial...
That's easy, it's an Israeli telephone token.
Most if not all of the 960 Reis coins from this period were struck over 8 Reales coins.
The 1967 coins should have a weight difference between the .800 and .500 fine coins. The 1968's are even easier to tell apart. The nickel...
Lincoln on the 1918 half ollar.
Check the ads closely and you'll find they say that those 3000 are some of the last remaining Morgan dollars, or similar wording. And that is...
You forgot a couple members of the club, James Madison who made it last year ($5,000 legal tender note fourth issue, $5,000 gold certificate...
Beautiful?? How about technically proficient. And I doubt if the actual coins will look as good as the artists renditions do.
Hard to say, it's got some strike weakness problems but it has some actual wear as well and the surfaces seem pretty baggy with impaired luster...
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