My advice would be to start off as a vestpocket dealer; make a want list for your customers and look for those coins at coin shops and coin shows....
Sorry but as Matt said it is strike doubling (aka mechanical doubling). Note the flat shelf on the numerals.
The coin is a nice example of a Capped Bust Half Dollar. Your coin is circulated and is a fairly common date. The missing 'E' in the motto is very...
Sorry. I was referring to the file names of some of your photos of the edge: rim-thick.jpg, rim-thin.jpg. By the way, congrats! That's a very...
Looks like a good candidate for a partial collar strike based on the photos of the edge (not the rim).
Think that through and explain it to us.
A dropped star would produce an incuse star on your coin. Is the star on your coin incuse? It looks raised to me. If it is raised it was most...
Doug probably remembers when that book came out.
A photo would help.
It looks like a very poor cast fake but a fake of exactly what I don't know. Also, ancient coins were almost never perfectly round and (to my...
I agree with your deduction. Most likely your coin was in a fire. A small air bubble between the clad layers built up pressure with the increasing...
Is that a question?
That was good advice. I am happy you were able to remove the fingerprints. If I were you I would probably submit it to PCGS or NGC. Having it...
When anyone asks what's in the book I tell them it describes Rome, Athens, Smyrna, Cairo, Ephesus and other towns and cities in Georgia.
I agree. That is a terrific find. I own a copy and I refer to it often. It is well written and incredibly well researched and extremely...
It is hard to tell from your photo because the photo is taken at an angle. Can you please post a photo taken straight into the coin rather than at...
Is the reverse also off center?
If you did indeed find something nifty you destroyed most (if not all) of the numismatic value by wiping, washing and shining it.
So what is the error?
Rude dealers like him are all too common. I would find another dealer to do business with (and I would let him know what you are doing and why)....
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