It looks much lower grade to me as well(VG at best) .. just look at the crown and the definition there. Then go to any routine guide on...
Anything that you use to touch a coin, regardless how soft, will end up damaging the coin. Once any kind of dirt, grime, or hardened deposit is...
Why would you even chance heating up acetone .. the fumes would be atrocious, let alone the flammability or explosive hazard
I'd go VF (probably closer to 20) as well and I have a hard time believing that NGC could give that other one a 45. Some of these were weakly...
A face dollar (of whatever denomination) of Canadian is .6 troy ounces, so you are getting 12 oz with your 20 silver dollars.... so you are paying...
In Trends, 1880H in G-4 is $5, VG-8 is $10. A very common date that a dealer/Ebay would give you just scrap silver price, which isn't much
SPP is the guy that I emailed to help you. He's the guru when it comes to small cent errors (much heavier on the errors than struck varieties)...
Even though it looks like ancients are taking center stage, Canada had a very nice 2000 series. This is a current Ebay auction where the vendor...
I sent this thread to a small cent variety collector. he'll come back and tell you.
Trends, on a rotational basis with other items not in/for general circulation, will have the RCM products, maybe once every 4 issues. Trends...
First off, I do not collect any RCM products unless they are coins for circulation where they offer them up at face value and free shipping (like...
Yes, providing that there is no wear on the coin and weighs what it did when it was minted.
Come on guys, get real. 95% of all the normally circulated copper pennies are worth less than 5 cents each, and then only if you are selling them...
There's no way that they will ever be worth $1 each. They were minted in the 10's of millions and will be worth about what common Lincoln cents...
Many of the border/coinage changes came about through marriages ... royalty married royalty and lands changed hands because of it. Look at the...
Through marriages, wars and land treaty swaps, the boundry lines of all the "city-states" of Germany and Austria changed continually through the...
I don't know, but the 20's are circulating now .... the 50's & 100's have been out for a while. Don't run them through the dryer.
Here's the whole zoo from a friend of mine who stopped work on it a few years ago, so I don't think that it is up to date: http://www.coinzoo.net/
You got the whole lot for just about melt. The earlier Canadian dimes and quarters sell for well over scrap and the European better than scarp as...
Jeez .. and all you give me are the bright and shiny ones! With the price of nickel right now, I think that most of these are in that great...
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