According to Kitco Rhodium was stable at $200 an ounce in 1972.
A double eagle was worth $20 in the late 1800's. Your question should be: "What would $20 buy in the late 1800's?" Prices for goods and...
I know nothing, but I am inclined to think that this is a fantasy made for the tourist trade.
Apropos nothing at all, many years ago when I was 15 and not very sophisticated about coins, I bought each of my parents a silver dollar key chain...
I have examined one purported 1959 plain wheat cent and one purported 1959-D wheat cent and did not think that either one was genuine.
Many years ago while I was working at ANACS I took a fairly decent Denarius of Julius Caesar out of a flip, and it fell in two right down the...
What is the precise weight?
We saw at least a dozen while I was there, probably more.
Marketing b.s.
Privately made novelty piece. We used to buy them and scrap them along with other similar novelty pieces.
OK, I could not see the word COPY on the original pictures. The stamps may not meet the depth requirements of the HPA, but I will give these a...
The HPA does not limit itself to legal tender coins. It specifies "imitation numismatic items." As a genuine pattern is definitely a "numismatic...
As unmarked Imitation Numismatic Items they are illegal under the Hobby Protection Act of 1973, and as such they are, to me, worthless.
That was definitely not a Cheerios dollar, and I doubt that any actual sale took place.
Well done! Thank you!
Yep, that is the 1796.
When I was working at a coin shop I used to pull "slick" silver coins from the incoming junk silver and scrap them rather then just throw them...
When I started at ANACS in November of 1978 this was one of the high quality Die struck counterfeits we were seeing. Not sure where the...
Of the Coin World Almanac? Yes, they do.
Spotting was very common on the 2000 coins. Eventually they added a machine that washed the planchets in a secret solution after the annealing...
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