An interesting and oft repeated story but it couldn't have happened too often. They only issued a new series about twelve times in almost thirty...
Struck coins are carried from the press to the edger. When it is emptied some stick in the hopper. later the hopper is used to transport...
The coin is too out of focus to really tell anything. I see a couple places where star points appear to be doubled but that could just be a focus...
I can guarantee that there wouldn't be, because I'll let you in on a little secret, the U S Mint hasn't issued any $1 bills in over 200 years....
You have to feel sorry for the Mint. Everytime someone in the House or Senate comes up with a stupid idea, or even worse manages to actually...
The first one was discovered sometime in the past six months. Yours is the second one that I have heard of. Surprisingly there has also been an...
Nothing will reverse it but a dry environment (the dryer the better, the corrosion requires water to proceed and water vapor in the air will work...
My calculations show that the P & D mints could produce the 300 million president dollars using four presses at each mint in 58 working days...
I'm a bit confused. Can someone explain what this dropped letter is, how it is formed, and how it creates the effect seen here? I know what a...
Can't really tell from the pictures, but it might be clashed dies.
Correct. In 1873 they ended the free coinage of silver (Until that point anyone could bring silver to the mint and have it turned into coins are...
The Euro production rate is way below ours. That 2.7 billion coins represents 7 years of production from 17 mints. That's 386 million coins per...
Average annual wage in Afghanistan is $300 per year or $5.76 a week. A $10 - $15 profit on the sale of a single coin looks pretty good. How...
But make sure you are talking to a dealer who specializes in errors. When it comes to errors 90% of the mainstream dealers have no idea what they...
Looks to me like for some reason the coin stopped rotating momentarily as it was passing through the lettering machine. Since the letters are...
Simple answer to that is that no that no they are not considered to be errors. The lettered edged cents and halves and dollars all come with edge...
Fake 1906 silver eagles coming out of china have been well known for years. Odds are better than 99.999% that it is a fake.
Excellent point. Yes the british are not having the same types of problems we are, but we are striking more in three months than they will...
What about contempoary counterfeiting? At one time these weren't worthless.
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