It was to prevent clipping. In 1639, French engineer Pierre Blondeau perfected milling around the edge of coins to prevent clipping. Taking...
Age has little to do with it. Common coins typically stay common for many, many years. Yeah, they might increase in value, some - but not much....
Person I'm talking about is Pat Braddick. Sample slabs for $20 ??? Usually they give them away.
Good job as always Clinker, but now another part of the story. Who first came up with the idea of using an edge design, why did they and when ?
I doubt it would matter. But I do agree with Conder. It is not unusual for coins from big name collections to be overgraded and it is next to...
The weight is just a bit light, but not so much that it alone would make me suspect the coin. However, on the coins from Potosi, the leaves on the...
Yes he does. There are others besides him as well who perform a very similar service. But to the best of my knowledge none of them actually slab...
Technically - only 1 coin can be the first stike from a new pair of dies. But let's say you wanted to push it just a bit - you might get away with...
Almost, but not quite. You have to keep in mind that the mint strikes these coins at an incredible rate - millions of them per day. In one day,...
First of all I would have my doubts that the coins advertised for such prices are truly Unc. And if they are, they are probably so beat up ( bag...
The grade is another way of saying what the condition of the coin is. In other words, if the coin has been in circulation and has any wear on it....
Your answer can be found - HERE
You're probably right Roy, but - don't think that just because of modern minting technology that spectacular errors don't occur in world coinage....
You can find quite a bit of info about ancients - Right Here The site already mentioned that you can use to find values can be found - HERE
Simple answer - yes.
If it were me, I'd just save the picture of the one that has been posted on your computer ;)
Only because the govt. pays me to do so [IMG] Don't ever change Carl, you're a true joy ;)
I showed him a pic of my pocket piece one day just to tempt him :D It's the absolute lowest graded coin of its type in existance. Alas, it would...
Toning on a coin is a subjective thing - beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that. So he may decide that enough is enough at some point....
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