Ha, that one is a transition variety! 1899 "early release" of Reverse 2 (1900-1905). Compare the left leaf vein with the 1892 I posted above -...
To me, microscopes aren't the problem. I've found lots of cool stuff snooping around at 40x. Attributing most VAMs require at least 15x. The...
Transition varieties? No data on that, no TPG designates them as far as I know. People (like me) do collect them. The ones I posted are normal,...
Don't get me started! I'll do a separate thread on transition varieties at some point. Meanwhile, here are the two obverse and three reverse...
The price tag is as stunning as the coin.
The cert# in that barcode matches the slab.
Aside from the obviously fake label and fake coin and the QR scanning stuff, the cert# embedded in the barcode pulls up a Chinese coin. I think...
@lordmarcovan, ruling please. "To post one of your coins next, you must either post a coin from the same country OR with the same date." Hahaha,...
Isle de France and Isle de Bourbon were/are part of France so I really don't know what I did wrong, but carry on.
Following both previous "leads" (hope I'm doing this right) [ATTACH]
NZ Florin 1947, nothing special, but got it in change in 1985. [ATTACH]
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If I'm reading this correctly, a former MA Historical Society coin ended up in the hands of counterfeiters? Despicable.
I said 65+ (without peeking). I figured the jaw/ear chatter is what the Canadians call "die burn".
Back to Canada for my 60th birthday present (to myself). 1947 50c SP Curved Right Maple Leaf [ATTACH]
My father was in the army, stationed in Germany during the Korean War. From his service there I got 1950 1 pfennig, 5 pfennig, 10 pfennig, 50...
NGC has images in their cert lookup, obverse seems a little more like a 62 in those, in that marks are showing on bust and fields that don't show...
Fascinating piece and analysis. I always wondered what the central dot in early coins was from.
Dupont... hmm. Sick sense of humor perhaps. One of the most famous coin robberies.
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