50-80% less than retail.
Because it was mounted in a piece of jewelry.
Yes, but it also says that they don't know much about coins.
For Proofs maybe, but I don't know of any MS70's prior to the mid '80s when the bullion coins appeared.
Jim I suggest to you that the coin you post about is struck - not cast. Cast coins do not ring, they clunk or go thud. And the Chinese...
There are many things you could be seeing. But an over-strike, or underlying type as you call it, is not one of them. So post pictures of your...
Yes there are. But there is an immense difference between an error and an intentional over-strike. Wrong planchet errors occur when a coin of...
If you haven't ever noticed, articles like the one you refer to are often the reason.
Howdy Kjetil - Welcome to the Forum ! Yes, that coin was minted in Russia.
One thing you may want to take notice of, the author of that article, Paul Green, has been dead for about 4 years now. Paul Green was a wonderful...
Marshall the commonly used term for what you are talking about is over-strike. That is when a coin or token of a different country, or perhaps...
Marshall, just so you understand. As Matt explained, by the time the gold coins in this thread were minted there were no US coins being struck on...
There is no way that could happen because of the different sizes of the planchets.
Hmmmm - it seems that some of you are unaware that there used to be full blown factories, huge places, in the middle east pumping out fake gold...
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