Your photo is not the best (lots of glare on the mintmark). Your coin is an impaired Proof coin. (The San Francisco Mint did not strike any...
Looks like the coin was struck through a capped die. Nice find.
No, it is not an error. Someone punched a 4 into the obverse of your coin. Why? I don't know. But that did not happen during the minting process....
I wonder what could have happened.
No 'Bid' or 'Ask' for these halves. Just one value.
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Grey Sheet is $1,775 in PF-64.
To clarify, Eliasberg bought the coin (for $11,500) in January 1946. Harry Bass bought the coin from the Eliasberg estate (for $687,500) in...
Sounds a lot like what you can see if you take the tour of the floor of the Denver Mint that is arranged by ANA during Summer Seminar.
So the $325 I paid Bob Campbell for two coins was not his biggest deal of the show. I wish he had shown me the Hobo Nickel collection (not that I...
I know the Blakesley Effect is missing on the nickel but I think it could be genuine. If you look at the edge inside the clip you can see the 'cut...
The quarter is a glue job. Dip it in acetone and the glue should come off. The nickel may be a genuine clip. Can you post a GOOD photo of the...
Very good write-up (as usual). Thanks for the inside look at something most of us will never see in person.
Without photos we have to assume they are worth 30 cents.
Do I win a prize? :hail:
I talked to Fred Weinberg at the Denver ANA Show last week and here is what he said: Method 1 (above) is correct. Measure the unstruck portion...
Very nice coin! Very nice.
Nice coin! Think about all the thousands and thousands that were melted in the 1940s because they did not sell. (If I remember correctly, the...
Your coin looks like is used to be an encased cent (like the one shown below): [ATTACH]
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