Here's a pretty neat off-center 1976 Lincoln cent I picked up yesterday-- I would say it is 75% off-center, and the entire date is visible....
Here's something I picked up at a Tokyo coin show recently-- 1870 One Yen, and 1871 Fifty Sen [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
That was my thought as well-- the LIBERTY across Lincoln's face looks like it is incuse, rather than raised, so if it is incuse it should be backward.
VG-10 details, VF-25, VG-10 details
I think the three-cent piece has minimal value because the last two digits of the date appear to be unreadable. The pictures of the Morgan dollar...
I think one reason was that they wanted to keep up the pretenses that the US dollar had not become a completely fiat currency. It's interesting...
I have seen the same coin in a similar condition, but without the toning, offered for $1200 by a dealer who specializes in Japanese coins.
The mini koban coin was made from 1860 to 1867. Its dimensions are approximately 36mm in long diameter, and 20mm in short diameter, and it is...
The novelty will probably wear off on the lower denomination notes, but there will probably still be demand for this note, until some country...
1887 Morgan dollar. I don't really know what to make of this toning.
I picked up this Japanese gold "mini koban" at a show today. It is the last type of koban gold issued by the Shogunate before the 1868 Meiji...
Unfortunately, the metal in your coin is worth more than the face value-- the currency was changed so that 1000 old bolivares (pre-2008) = 1...
Here's my avatar coin:
I wonder of those are drift marks on the obverse of this 1825 Bust half?
I don't either.
Here is my oldest pre-federal US coin
Here's my oldest federal US coin
What is it? The image doesn't come up on my computer.
It looks like there are a lot of scratches on your coin, and a small gash on Liberty's shoulder. I can't tell whether the reverse dig is...
That was a loooooong time ago. During my Alaska trip, I stopped at a little general store in Chicken, which had its own "gold creek" where people...
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