Better than 999 times out of a thousand coins such as this turn out to simply be plated, discolored, or in a few cases sintered with copper dust...
The mintmark was punched into each working die by hand, then each working die struck somewhere between 750K and 1 million cents So for every...
Thank you.
And for that $20 you get "Not good enough."
I don't like it.
Number 4, get the motto out of sight as much as possible.
And how do you propose to get them over here from China so they can be brought to US justice? And of course US justice would be to turn them lose...
Would be good to see pictures, but it sounds like a misalignd die (wide rim) and finning (much higher)
What Mint? I've never heard of gift certificates from the US Mint.
Somebody squashed that cent after it left the mint.
Mint mark went to the model for the proof coins in 1985, the last hand punched mintmarks for business strikes was 1989 or 90, the single squeeze...
Until 1999 the proof set holders were sonicly welded much like the slab are done. In some cases they didn't do a real good job on the welding....
All of the real souvenir sets I have seen have included the bronze mint medal for that mint
1850's large cent in Fine 75 cents. From 47 to 2008 at 6% = $26.25 2008 redbook = $22 1840's centin Fine $1.25 47 to 2008 at 6% = $43.75...
I don't believe the mint sold 2000 coin bags of these did they? And the "mint sewn" bags that get shipped out to the fed would be around 100,000...
The dealer is probably talking about the delays in shipping Mint rolls of the quarters because of the tornado that hit the Mints distribution...
I think the ban will be lifted when one of two things happens. Enough time passes so that the number of copper cents in circulation becomes a...
1.This is the first coin series ever in US history without a year date. Actually the series does have a date, the error coins don't have dates....
But how would they get separated from the rest of the dollar coins and then get from the dollar production line over to the quarter bagging area?...
Good intentions, but wrong jurisdiction. Secret Service handles counterfeiting of the coinage, and if the maker is in China he is out of the...
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