After seeing the second larger pictures of your coin I have to back track to my earlier statement, it is indeed a type I hair, and being a type I...
If it is a McDermott specimen from the ANA Museum, why is it in the George Walton holder? :D Before I got to the identification I was thinking...
You want to try a low mintage, try the 2008 W unc half oz coin. According to the 7/1/08 Numismatic News so far only 1,572 coins have been...
They also ran quarter stock through the dime blanking press and struc dimes that were as thick as quarters But those are much tougher to find...
That is a genuine planchet error. Clamshell lamination that split off ofter striking. The upper silver layer was not bonded to the copper except...
Have you reversed the image of the "hub" side?
As Treashunt said all of the 1811 dimes are 11/09. I can't say if this was Unc or not before the heavy harsh cleaning got to it. Looks like it...
Well I'm not sure I fully understand your example but . . . OK, you paid $361 plus shipping. Apparently from later comments you are in at a...
Well the 57 is easy. It's a large date so that makes it an N-1. I think the 1838 is an N-6.
Have you got a credit card that pays you cash back? Get 2% back? Buy $500 dump them in the bank get $10 back from the credit card. Lather,...
Yeah, with 72,769,800 half dollars made that year there would be 73 of them floating around and they would probably have been reported long before...
Even sheen over the entire coin. It's either been evenly lit from all sides (which isn't the case because it does show shadows) or it has been...
Well unless they changed the composition this year, they make their pennies out of copper plated steel, and it looks like they sometimes have the...
You're right, seven. I have problems counting things like that especially in enlarged pictures the depth of field keeps reversing on me and I...
So far there are no plans to do so. In fact, on the Sac dollars starting in 2009 the mintmark will be moving from the face to the edge.
chatter strike = strike doubling = ejection doubling = machine doubling = machine doubling damage All different terms used over the years (in...
I don't have the Newman reference but I see it as no stop after Georgivs and six harp strings. (I believe there are some 30 obv and 40 rev dies...
Andy21us's answer is completely wrong in this case. But his confusion is probably related to imprecise terminology. A "filled" mintmark such as...
No problem at all buying them, as long as you know how to grade, see the coins in hand (or have return priviledge, but then you may be on the hook...
Distorted hub doubling from a SEVERELY distorted hub? That is a LOT of spread in the two images and it is all outward from the center all the way...
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