Actually the metal pieces are mainly the "emergency" coinage. The oddball things like the porcelain, coal and clay issues, along with most of...
The law requires that they strike one Sac dollar for every two President dollars.
Yes, they charge an extra $10 to put the First Strike on the label. So the get a greatly increased number of submissions, and $24 dollars apiece...
I do see what appears to be a couple small spots of corrosion but I do not believe that is what is causeing the color change. And I think we can...
Coinage 10, I think one reason you may not have gotten much in the way of responses on your coin was because you hijacked someone elses thread....
It might be reprocessed, or it may be die erosion doubling. I do not believe it to be mechanical doubling.
Bingo (of course Mike would get it.) I believe the way these are made is by putting the coin on a soft brass plate and then hitting them with a...
Those might be worth picking up if you can get them though. The starter kits for the first Euro countries are collectible already, and since the...
The german notgeld coinage does make an interesting collectable. It can be found in metal, porcelin, and in some other exaotic materials...
PCGS says this but they did not begin producing First Strike coins until 2005. They may have come up with the scam in 2004 but they didn't...
Haven't received it but I've seen a copy of it. Most of it I don't care about but I did find the question about the Presidential dollars...
Can you explain how it was made then? And what exactly was pressed together? If you think they pressed a quarter into a dollar think again. (Oh...
The printing was not messed up on the back of the note because the sheet was folded after the back was printed. (paper money is printed in three...
Yep, then Sierra Leone was the second (1791), and the United States was third (1792). Don't know who was #4. (Many histories incorrectly credit...
No, David Sears also runs a grading service specificly dedicated to ancients.
True, but it may be well known in the room that auction house X is going to be selling (or a big name dealer has recently acquired) say a major...
I still don't understand the logic behind this. There were four presidents that did not have a wife while they served in office. For three of...
Yes it probably will make a difference, since, if you check the pops, I belive you will find that the non first strikes are scarcer than the first...
Becky, those are both die cracks. The first one has become wider because of die is chipping away between the O and the die crack. This is an...
Until about 1980 the standard canvas mint bag was $50 cents $200 nickels $1000 Dimes, quarters, halves and dollars With the introduction of...
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