Sunday night see EBAY seller: johnmenc I will be offering an incredible contemporary circulating counterfeit for this famous American coin. From...
Mackat - Its a Chinese chop mark. 01mikep - Its silver surface embrittlement which is caused by the stress of copper and silver in the same...
After a year I still can not find the GD Moderator to be wrong and always on cue ... <VVBG>. He knows his stuff ... seriously. JPL
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Actually this whole post is in ERROR. Die cracks do not lead to die chips. A die chip is defined as: A small piece (less than 4 square...
Coinquest 1961 I see your point - these guys change EBAY names like every other week.
Its an interesting and very important question. But you WILL NOT get the answer in this forum on its accuracy. 20-30 years ago when Bowers had...
Report it to the Coin Community Forum section on Counterfeit Coins. There is a guy name Bobby with a lot of FORCE/PULL/POWER on EBAY. My new book...
Sorry - I forgot where I was at ... pretty coin. LOL.
... and your personal thoughts of the 1717 Pre-Patterns in bath metal in terms of their REAL purpose? John Lorenzo United States
With my second book due out soon and over 100+ numismatic articles I have not been robbed yet. A lot of collectors are paranoid. Keep most of mine...
Its getting difficult as we are constantly flooded with Modern forgeries from China. Realize that contemporary circulating counterfeits or...
A couple years back I saw the Colonel Green inventory book (bid/buy book) in the auction lot viewing which he kept via Kolbe & Fanning auction and...
Incredible. John Lorenzo Numismatist United States
In my new book out shortly via Amazon Books on Counterfeits although my contemporary circulating counterfeits (CCCs) start around 1500 in my...
All XRF analysis are from benchtop XRF devices although surface analysis is of course skewed and the central core of a coin is more accurate to...
Purchased recently a Half Dollar on Quarter Stock so it was a bit confusing at first. Most error collectors prefer the wrong planchet than wrong...
In terms of the Newman piece there is some form of plate peeling off the coin as you can see different discolorations which IMO is silver and...
In terms of the Escudos (Spanish) Coronado (spelling?) does a good basic treatment on these ... in some respect they are ALL scarce but more...
As some of you guys know we used two definitions in the Gurney book: contemporary circulating counterfeits and modern forgeries. I agree to the...
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