You forget a dime in the 1960's is not the same thing as a dime today. Back in the 60's that coke cost a dime. By grinding down the cent they...
Why is it that everyone is always so eager to open disputes, and start chargebacks after relatively brief periods, but never bother to actually...
You have failed to tell us anything about what ANACS said about the coin when it was slabbed. What did they grade it? Is it net graded? How old...
We enumerated them in a thread on the NGC forum and reached 118 coins, then on the PCGS forum they came up with a few I missed. Latest count is...
It remained disme in official government records until 1837. Trivia: The US was the third country to adopt the decimal system for their...
For two years I did the National Census of early date large cent collections. Naturally it was mostly EAC members participating. Now the EAC is...
Sharpness VF-20 or so, corroded, net G-4 or G-5 Scudzy.
The 1794 large cent is a S-70 it is a common variety but a fairly nice coin. (These early large cents are commonly collected by die variety,...
I'd gladly pay 5 to 10 times what one of those coins is actually worth. What is a corroded harshly cleaned and badly hairlined XF-AU seated half...
First thing I saw on the coin that cinched it as a fake. The stars on the obverse are six pointed and of a style last used around 1836. Also the...
No, the reverse hubs that create the close and wide AM cents are different. There are several differences in the design between the two hubs....
Interesting, the rims by the clip and the flowing in weakness of the date are the two features that convince me the clip is real. (Plus the lack...
From his description it sounds like he is saying the obv half of the edge is unreeded, and the reverse half is reeded. In other words a partial...
The AM do not have to touch to be a close AM. As mentioned earlier polishing of the dies will cause the seperation of the letters to widen....
It is underinked, not obstructed. If it was obstructed the area would be completely blank but if you look carefully you will see that most if not...
Another good reference is Cast Chinese Cash by David Hartill. It came out about a year or so ago and it is quite good. It will probaly become...
The billion mark coin comes in both 60mm and 61mm sizes. I have both of them. In fact I am only missing a couple of the varieties in the series.
The Omega counterfeits were identified by ANACS back in the early 1970's and probably date from around that time. It wasn't a case of ANACS...
I know people are buying them, but how many of them are actually COLLECTING them. I think either a great many of them are buying for speculation...
1964 coins struck on clad planchets do exist, I've seen some. I have also seen 1965 coins struck on silver. I do not believe there are any 1966...
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