Much of the story is already on www.smalldollars.com This piece, if verified, would be the first piece that I known of to be recovered from...
IF this piece checks out and gets certified I would be happy to write it up and include the backstory.
They certainly should. I would be happy to assist any TPG you send it to in attributing it. Tell whoever you send it to to contact Tom DeLorey...
The pieces sent to General Mills were not a test run. I believe that it was the 5,500 pieces needed for the promotion. However, it is known that...
If anybody researches it, be sure to post your results here. I suspect that even when I asked their reaction was something like "Gee, this is...
The photos are still inadequate to be sure, but I think that the coin has enough of a chance to justify sending it in to a TPG. I would recommend...
As to your new photographs, I think that you should submit the piece to ANACS to see what they say.
I have one of the original cereal boxes. The fine print on the contest rules say that the chances of winning one of the First Prizes is...
I remember hearing about it (the Mecklenberg Declaration) back around the time of the Bicentennial. Don't remember reading about the medal, though...
Roger W. Burdette, who has studied the minting process extensively, says that in the late 19th Century the Mint would alter a die by first filling...
Howdy all. Other than to say that I believe that these dies were first punched with an S mint mark punch and later punched with an O mint mark...
As I said, "usually." There may have been other makers who did it differently.
Take it out of that plastic shell and take some well-lit pictures of the tail feathers. ALSO take a picture of the date and the part of the gown...
Not quite. This is how the magician's trick coin, which you used to see advertised in the back of comic books along with the "X-ray glasses" and...
This. Very neat error. How's the edge? Partial collar or broadstruck? TD
Don't have any to share, but I remember the day I identified the first dual-denomination clash mark on one of these. I was sitting with Bill Fivaz...
I started doing this professionally in 1974. How much experience do you want?
Your two cent piece pictured is 23 mm. The slug next to it is noticeably larger. A quarter is 24.26 mm. Take a picture of your slug atop a normal...
Looks like a slug meant to pass as a quarter in a vending machine.
So you personally are willing to buy damaged goods at full spot and then sell it for less than spot, which is all that the real world will pay,...
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