< I also hate that ebay doesn't count feedback from a repeat seller/buyer. I don't get the "unique" thingie. To me a transaction should count even...
< Hell, there could be as high as 100,000, isn't that the avg. life of a die? > Quarter die life can run around 500,000.
< I'm telling you exactly what is happening right now with ASA Accugrade's lawyers...they are either looking to see how long they can "milk" their...
Yes they are still legal tender
This looks like machine doubling, not a doubld die.
If the "harder" piece is hard enough not to be flattened by the strike it would also most likely be hard enough to cause damage to the surfaces of...
Major obverse die break. A large piece of the obverse die has broken off and fallen away. With no metal to form the planchet the metal of the...
Be carefull, there are also Uncirculated SAE's packaged by private companies with COA'a and put in velvet boxes that are very similar to the boxes...
The coin in question is an altered date coin. The 3 has been altered, probably by removing the left side of the 8 on a 1948 S cent. Th cshape of...
<<Wouldn't "Babies Runny Nose" be equally offensive? >> Yes, and you won't find that nickname being used on any major services slabs either....
If somehow you did manage to get some hard "lump" trapped between the layers when the initial ingot was created it would either be crushed and/or...
Yes good information BUT the answer to can you difinitively tell if a coin is a business strike intended for circulation or a business strike...
I think it is post printing.
<It is the result of gasses being trapped between the clad layers which expand and create the bubble when the coin is struck.> These bubbles are...
<Fred,I am surprised that she ended up with 98 negatives in her feedback box.I had thought that once 3 people left negatives,Ebay would come down...
He goes by the name dcarr on the PCGS forum.
Picture still leaves something to be desired but from what I see it is a genuine error. It is a coin that has been struck with a second planchet...
Well if you look at the second picture it is obvious that the chin has taken at least three direct hits (The dents are still in it.) which has...
I think it's just a beaten up altered date coin.
The 1998 and 2004 are much lower relief than the 1973 issues. Also in 1973 the master dies were completely redone resulting in a much sharper image.
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