The problem with nic-a-date and many similar chemicals when using them to etch a silver coin and bring out a date is that a great many silver...
??? The collar is just a flat piece of steel with a hole through it and the insides of that hole are just straight up and down. The inner edge...
Much easier way of identifying the reverse is to look in the eagles left talon. On the type 1 there is a very prominent berry there above the...
Your picture looks like a normal Sac dollar. What am I missing?
35,401 minted currently only one survivor known, certified by NGC in Aug of 2001. That's for the business strike of course. There are about a...
I would talk to the people you bought it from first to let them know what you are doing and to get their approval. Because by the time you get it...
Sorry but the 21.187 gram weight IS within the mint tolerance of +/- .097 grams. The legal minimum weight for the Trade dolare is 27.119 grams I...
Yes they have almost all come out of West Point since 2000 (I think the 2006 P reverse proof is the only exception), but they have only had the W...
So why subscribe. A dealer might need to keep on top of week to week price changes (but most things don't really change that much o that...
If you will not the scratch runs across the center of both coins. There was a early vending machine coin mechanism tha used to check to make sure...
Definitely cleaned, and harshly. And I agree the VDB does look uncommonly sharp. Usually they ar not that bold.
1877-S with a type 1 reverse. Absolute fake.
I think that many of the state quarter collectors have already grown tired of them and moved on. Once it ends many of them will finish off their...
But if you drive them on the roads here in the US you can be charged and fined for conspiring to evade the fuel tax laws. As to the Whizzers,...
Sorry I misunderstood what you meant when you said the gold was gone many years before the silver was used up, because the mint has never really...
Government. . . .irresponsible. Sounds like a good argument for the gold being gone. :)
And 30 years ago when he started carrying it a Fine 1811 bust half was a $10 - $15 coin
Why should the 24kt cost more than the 900 fine version? They both contain exactly the same amount of gold, but the 900 fine version give you an...
The features around te eye appear raised so i would think a damaged ot chipped die. Possibly from clashing. They may try an polis them out and...
Unlike GDJMSP, I believe the government still has gold reserves, but the legislation for the gold eagles and usually the gold commems requires the...
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