Congratulations, you have a bogus bustie. It is a contemporty counterfeit. The obv looks to be Obv 4 in Keith Davignon's book Contemporary...
Assuming you could find a recycler who would take them, and assuming he gave you one fourth the excess value ove face that the metal was worth,...
And one the PCGS forum there is a thread with pictures of PCGS and ICG slabs that also have the wrong date on them. And I've seen the same...
Just in case someone wanted to shoot one of them I guess. And the Smithsonian has 2 specimens not one.
I first saw that particular slab a couple months ago. I don't know if this is the same company as the World Coin Grading Service that I listed in...
Last day is the day they sell out (already happened for the 3 pc gold and 2 pc Unc set) or probably mid Dec. They will definitely stop these at...
The mintmarks were applied to each individual working die by hand using a punch and mallet to it is not unusual for them to "wander" about a bit...
Specs for a 40% silver planchet is 11.5 grams +/- .4 grams. So as long as it weighs between 11.1 and 11.9 grams it is within the Mint tolerance....
The 2004's are more expensive for a very silly reason. A lot of peoplewho want to get proof and mint sets to give for Christmas presents...
As I said earlier having facsimile on it is tiny letters does NOT make it legal. It is still in violation of the Hobby Protection Act which...
From the date position I come up with four possibilities N-14, 17, 18, or 23. The problem is the features you need to see to tell them apart are...
Make that a British halfpenny, there was no such coin as a british penny at the time. The last british penny before that time was a small silver...
Big surprise,that's called advertising. Everyone tries to put their product in its best light and tries to sell it for as much as the market will...
I can see the ONE on the image on my computer. If it is the result of alteration, then they altered a fake as maintained by my other comments...
The problem with that is the error TYPE is very common, you will find lots of filled die coins with varieous parts of the design missing. But it...
Very nice token, and an EXCELLENT write up. I can only add a little about the coin itself. There are only three tokens credited to Hickman,...
I see nothing wrong with the auction, I believe the coin is what he says it is, a filled die error, and he describes how it happens accurately....
I think it is a fake although it is a better one than most of them I see. I don't like the denticals, and I definitely don't like the olive...
You folks that are calling it an altered quarter had better learn to take a closer look at your coins. He didn't mention the size but I would...
The top one is a D&H 240 and the lower one is D&H 242. Rarities vary greatly depending on the edge inscription. The are edge varieties of both...
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