Why? Possibly they copyrighted the name back in 1978. (and maybe had a certificate I haven't seen yet.) A copyright is good till 70 years after...
You found a Jefferson head? Got any pictures?
I've always found this argument interesting. So if a "recognized" state doesn't recognize them, they don't exist. But who "recognized" that...
Last I checked copyrights existed before the Internet and even before personal computers. I thought I had an old reference to an AGS from Georgia...
Well it depends on when you consider the start was. When I started collecting there were no services so you could say I started at one. But if...
The second IS a large cud, the first is not a die cap, it was struck BY a late stage capped die. Not the same thing. A die cap is the coin that...
No Zinc has a much lower melting point than copper. Zinc melts just below 800 degrees, copper is about a thousand degrees higher. The copper...
Just because they are in bags direct from the Mint doesn't mean they can't have post mint damage. Post mint damage simply means that something...
Jerome, how can you say that when you don't even know what it is?
Possibly a die goug but also possibly, and probably more likely a bubble in the plating.
To see the edge it's not to bad, to read the edge is kind of difficult. You have to tip the holder toward you so you can see the edgeand then the...
Even though it does have 25 C by the eagles tail. :)
And that would be quite a trick too considering the Shield nickel wasn't authorized until May of 1866. He probably has an 1883 with a damaged...
What you are misreading is that they are talking about COMMEMORATIVE half dollars , and none of the modern commemorative half dollars have had an...
Yes there are over 570 different varieties, but ALL of them have the denomination specified in some way such as D, Dol, Doll, Dolls etc. NONE of...
It actually got all the way up to $150 before it crashed.
Michael Lantz, chief die setter for the Denver mint from the early 1960's to the mid 90's, said at a presentation at the Central States Show in...
Oh god what pieces of junk. How I wish i had been wrong when I predicted that with the introduction of the generic shells everyone and his...
If you are going to measure the diameter do it in mm NOT inches. Especially if your caliper only goes to two decimal places. The difference...
I agree with JeromeLS, the example pictured in the original post is definitely not real.
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