OK, but where do you get those rolls ? You get them at the bank, not from the Fed. And the bank gets them from customers who bring them in - not...
Send a copy of your pics to Howard - he's a recognized expert on Shield Nickels and he may be able to offer you additional info. You can contact...
And all Proofs are struck at least twice.
That in itself is what males me think it has been cleaned.
Typically it is done for authenticatrion purposes.
There are a couple of ways - either post it in the Gallery which does accept larger file sizes or post it on a hosting site like Photobucket and...
From the look of it I am inclined to think it is double struck rather than a doubled die.
The super bug ? Or the power of the dark side ? :D Or are they both the same thing ?
Neither one - a $1000 bag of halves is under 100 lbs. And don't mix up bags from the US Mint which require a fork lift to move them and the...
Bet you wouldn't find it so funny if I said the same thing about Philly now would ya ? I think we can do without comments like that.
You're going to have a hard time finding anything that will harm the coins when it comes to storage since they are pure gold.
Probably the largest coin club in the world is located in NYC - the American Numismatic Society.
It's quite easy to do as well as safe to do assuming two conditions are met. One - you know what you are doing. In other woirds you personally...
Die cracks on the '21 Morgan are extremely common because they had one goal at the time - to pump out as many of them as they could as fast as...
I gotta go with post mint damage.
Just a suggestion - get your group together firrst. Then follow your idea in a hypothetical sense instead of a real one. Say everybody contributes...
Wish I had one of those jobs - I can't get by with less than 12 :( BTW - I think you'd find that most graders work 10 - 12 too.
You mean like this one ? Patriotic Civil War Tokens by George & Melvin Fuld. I believe that is the definitive reference book for them. And you...
Simple - know how to grade coins accurately based on the company's standards. If you apply for the job they give you a test grading them. How you...
Less than 10 seconds for the average coin - usually only 5 or 6 seconds. And no I'm not joking.
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