He's asking a lot of money for a little die chip. I looked at the PCGS verification site picture. Is that a little doubling on the IN GOD WE...
Be safe!
I'd have to be in the cleaned-off corrosion camp. I'm no expert, however, and you could be right about the planchet. I'd like to see some actual...
This one is common and beat up, but it was a gift to me from a friend who received it in change at a Hardee's in Montgomery, Alabama, in...
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Technically, yes, there appears to be a very slight misalignment, but it is very common and would add no value at all to the coin.
Yes. I'm both old and dyslexic, so I never could spell. However, if it was in fact done with a vise, I would consider it a vice.
I am certainly not an expert, but it seems to be clearly a "squeeze play" of some sort. If the squeeze is actually old, which seems most likely,...
Wow! Just wow!
Don't forget, if you do wind up paying $500,000 or more for it, you get the rest of the original proof set with it!
It's also possible that more than two were produced, and when they discovered the mistake they tried to recall all of them, maybe thinking they...
Hibernia halfpenny; 1626 West Frisia, Netherlands (picked up from a dealer's junk box. I think I paid a quarter for it, so it's not in great...
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[ATTACH] I have owned this one 25% of the time since it was issued. (Sorry about the reverse, I photographed the obverse several years ago for a...
Mine is not only chop marked, but harshly cleaned. Still, it's history. Here also is my 1 reale and my 1/2 reale, both less than wonderful, but,...
Although, re-reading the original post, it seems at least someone in the family is the would-be seller, so I guess not.
It might also have extra value to the family of the one who originally received it. I can't quite make out the name from the photo.
MS64 at best. There are marks on and above the word TRUST and above 19 as well as a lot of chatter on the reverse from the word HALF to...
When I was working in a bank in Alabama in the 1960s, we'd frequently get $2 bills with one or more, sometimes 4 corners torn off. We'd have to...
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