I wouldn't call them a token since they are not good for any kind of exchange value. more like a medalette. They were sold for $20 by a private...
Uncirculated. The problem is that unless the coins are still sealed inside of the original mint packaging, if they show no wear there is no way...
What happened? Sanity eventually prevailed. As it eventualy usually does after something jumps way up once it comes out.
Either you didn't understand what the dealer was telling you (or you are having difficulty relaying it here) or you should not trust the dealer...
Because you are paying for the paper, not the coins. Sure the coins are the same but the coins you get from the bank aren't (cue fan fair music)...
My guess is they were working on reducing it to the size of a dime, thereby doubling it's face value. Yes to us today it sounds like a lot of...
Yes Mercury, like all heavy metals, is a poison but it is nowhere near as dangerous as it is made out to be. It won't pass through the skin, and...
There is no significance. Use of the term Josh meaning to trick or fool pre-dates the rackateer nickels by close to 50 years. The Josh Tatum...
The Fugio hoard was an original keg of 5000 pieces that had been deposited as collateral back around the 1790's and never redeemed. As stated...
The rules for the changing of the date and series letters are a bit confusing. Especially since they changed the rules in the late 1980's....
Is that 96-O dollar a micro O? The mintmark looks unusually small to me.
NV was so worried that their quarter might mention the states history of gambling that they jumped at approving this design with the horses on it....
I think you probably have it backwards. It was probably an Australian coin. There have been six different Austraian coins that have included the...
The 1868 shield nickel comes with three different reverse hub designs, yours is a hub of 1868 only used in this one year. There was only one...
Gallery Grading has been around for about five months now and I really can't understand this company at all. They have absolutely the wierdest...
If you do you are required to submit an example to my reference set, along with information on your location and when the grading service began.
bigd, you mentioned me in the first post as one of the people you wanted a comment from. Well since in the first thread I said I was 99.9+% sure...
It's been awhile since I used Pick, but I was under the impression that they did give the size of the note in millimeters as 123 X 456.
In the 1830's a semi-skilled laborer earned probably between 1 and 2 dollars a day. In Mexico the wages would have been even lower. A 8 reales...
Interesting "counterstamp", if that is what it is, runing up vertically above the 80. Can't make out what it is, but why counterstamp a fake?
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