Xylol (also known as Xylene) may be slightly carcinogenic but there are naturally occuring carcinogenc compounds in carrots that are more powerful...
Draped bust large cent. The obverse is simple and classic, the reverse appealing in it's clean simplicity as well. Plus it's copper.
Most of the nickels I get in change nowadays are post 1980. So with the same design they tend to be pretty common for about 25 years. With a...
They now or very soon (I'm pretty sure it's now, they've been doing the top 100 and top 50 for awhile now.) will do all of them. If you don't...
You're on the right track but the discription is wrong. First the Master Hub is created by the reducing lathe from the Galvano or epoxy model....
If so they should fire that lawyer. A holder that looks similar to an NGC holder (in hand it obviously isn't very similar at all.) but with the...
All of the circulation 79-S SBA's have blob S mintmarks. Yes with enough wear a circulated proof coin can lose enough of the Proof...
In my case I find the Hobo interesting because that definitely looks like an original Hobo nickel and not a more recent carving. It would really...
The Sac's were sent to Ecuador for circulation when they made the US dollar legal tender there. Counterfeits soon appeared and som of them have...
I haven't been around here so far this year so I wasn't able to chime in before the auction ended but I don't see anything wrong with that holder....
If you don't know how to grade then don't spend large sums on coins until you can grade. Even from the top tier companies. Your risk may be...
Not that many. After the first year, maybe the second, after they find their vaults bulging with coins no one wants, they will wind up going back...
Eric Newman did a lot of research on the origin of the $ sign and his conclusion was that it was derived from the changing abbrieviation for...
Third opinion here for a filled die.
Definitely NOT a capped die strike. In fact a capped die strike would NOT show a high rim like this thing does. I think what GDJMSP was thinking...
Weight is always the first thing to check when trying to determine authenticity. If you weigh a trade dollar and it weighs 27.3 grams does that...
Maybe go back just to 1901 and have all the dollars of the twentieth century.
I don't know if it has changed, but it used to be that by law the mint could not use more than a 20% mark up over cost. Of course what they did...
Reminds me of my very first trip to a coin dealers shop. I was about 12 at the time. He threw me out of the shop saying he didn't want any kids...
Weight would be the best test. If you don't have access to a scale you could try the tissue paper test. Put the coin down on a table next to a...
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