Huh? NONE of the Cheerios cents are Wide AM coins, they are all close AM. The Cheerios cents were struck in late 1999 and the wide AM cents did...
Ah, but t wasn't on John Adams errors which was what he wanted "constructive information" on. (Constructive information? As in how to construct...
I'm sure it is NOT an error. What it probably is, is a textured surface that has been applied to the surface of the edge die to try and prevent...
I never said it would be financially feasible.
In actual practice the numerals as shown on the coin sometimes have no relation to how it appears in the table in Krause. It seems the person...
That's your answer, value is all over the place and it is very speculative.
Can't be struck through grease, the initials on the die are raised. Not likely an alteration because the initials in the coin are incuse so they...
Yes you can see the different layers on a regular dollar if you look for it, but the transition between the layer tends to be "rough" and uneven...
Because that is the way Wyoming designed it. All five of the finalists were some version of that design, although one of them did have details on...
And with much effort and trouble they can be removed again.
The "error" is so minor that it doesn't show in that scan? Then it is a minor strike through worth a dollar or so, maybe less. Not worth...
Actually nowadays they do try to catch and retire dies shortly after they atart cracking. Once cracks start the die probably won't last much...
No way to tell just by looking at it. Especially through a coputer. Krause does not list a fineness of weight for the silver issue. You might...
The 1909 SVDB is almost certainly a complete fake. The S is completely wrong and the VDB is wrong as well. The whole style looks wrong, the rims...
There have been several different people/groups that have been stamping various things on the coins for political reasons "We The People",...
He didn't say a couple hundred, he said a few hundred. And remember tha apparently the coin IS heavily corroded, and the dealer was pobably...
It's called a progression, die cracks do that. I would not bother to send them off for slabbing. Even if you sent them in as moderns and not...
Published Nov 25th 1987 and it was the report of the Nov 9th Hapsburg-Feldman sale in Geneva Switzerland.
Well Good is a 4, and semi means half and half of 4 is 2 so I'd say a semi-Good would be a Fair-2
One concern I would have is that dark high sharpness grade cents from the 20's seem to often have even fine porosity over the whole surface and...
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