I can't tell from those photos if what is going on on the right hand side is the result of laminations or just die cracks. And I don't see...
die gouges or die chips.
I wish I could see this thing in person but what it looks lke to me is a hub crack. The hub used to make the edge die cracked. When it hubbed...
When Barr left office after just one month people thought the notes with his signature would be a short series and therefor valuable so they began...
Ths is not an"error", nor are the S's replaced with f's. It looks like an f at first glance but it is a different letter. Notice the lack of a...
Dry intaglio merely means that the paper is dry not the ink. (Before about 1957 they did wet intaglio printing where the paper was dampened...
I don't know if it is the case with the Scottish coins but one of the reasons for some pf the "bent" coins ws because they were struck on a rocker...
Then you have that ICG shown earlier. Sure it's authentic, but that's all it is. Everything else about it was wrong or at least that was the...
My last couple cost me somewhere between $100 and $125 each.
Nah, they're too busy making 1906 silver eagles (and no that date is NOT a typo. They actually made false dies from a 1986 silver eagle and...
Because if they did it would be much harder to catch the suckers.
No the 1798 is still there with two days yet to go. On the 1798, the stars are too small, the date font is too large and the wrong style and...
That's probaby because the majority of the ebay auctions posted her wih a "look at this" or "Is this a scam?" or a "I can't believe this" etc....
If the coin is too worn the acid will not bring the date back. When it i struck there is a slight difference in the metal density between the...
I think you must mean is not hard to find. It is actually just about the most common Conder token there is. I've got close to a dozen of them...
Actually if you check the laws that authorized the gold eagles you'll find that they have to purchase newly mined US gold if it s at all possible....
If you have any doubts about this "well educated single mom with a full time job" look at her other eBay auction. Is this her full time job?
Correct, although I believe it was fictional, made famous by "The Best Little *****house in Texas". The very famous and very real, and the first...
It is also weakness of strike. With the die sinking the dies were now further apart in that area and the metal had more trouble flowing into and...
When opening a 2X2, forget about removing the staples. Safest way to remove a coin from a coin from a 2X2 is to take a wooden toothpick and push...
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