I'm certainly no expert, but I can see there is some general rubbing, so the max would be AU. The weakness of the steps and left side of the...
Nice find from circulation, but not worth spending the money for grading. I always wonder where such a coin has been hiding all these years....
Cool coin. I'm very ignorant of the process of making dies in those days. Is it possible the bust was put on with a hub and the date and stars...
I have, but not in a while, and you had to ask for one. Before 1964 my bank (I was both a customer and part-time and summer employee as a kid)...
True, reparations were required to be paid in gold, or in foreign currency such as British pounds exchangeable for gold. This made it all but...
On the date given as the issue date on the German bill, the 1000 marks could have been taken to a bank and exchanged for 50 twenty mark gold...
Strikethroughs and PMD can be confusing. I found this 2017-P Lincoln recently, and I would say it has a strikethrough, or even two, but I am...
Entry Post. Here is some "gold" from my garden this afternoon![ATTACH] Deloyala guttata - Mottled Tortoise Beetle
I still drive my 2000 Saturn LS, but the cassette player no longer works. It was my "new" car until last year when I bought a Hyundai and sold my...
It's also a great example of machine doubling, which has some educational value.
It's possible this one was once owned by Jack Benny (for those of you old enough to understand this.)
I don't imagine I am giving away any secrets to counterfeiters who care, since the information is already widely available.
Just going by what they told me in Fort Worth, but you are probably right. It would not work on non-starched paper, and there are a lot of them...
The gold color in the "20" is made with metallic flakes that change color depending on the angle viewed, so even slightly different camera angles...
Another poor indicator, not present on these bills, is the use of "counterfeit detection" pens. The ink mark left by the pen supposedly changes...
Width is not a good indicator in circulated bills because wrinkling causes the bill to seem to shrink. Any good counterfeiter should be able to...
The top note is clearly the counterfeit, but not because of the position of the seal. I have seen genuine notes with the seal slightly off...
Quick Google search found this: https://www.pcgs.com/News/1964-d-Peace-Dollars-Do-They-Really-Exist
He does have one thing accurate in the listing. He says the coin is "priceless." I agree: there is no price I would pay for it.
It looks like it has been scraped on concrete. I can imagine a scenario where someone wanted to move, say, a heavy wooden box across a cement...
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