Gonna getcha for that Wabbit ! I'd turn ya into a toad but we got one too many of them around here as it is :D
Young Numismatist - you is one ;)
The first fake coins showed up not long after the first real coins. They've been making them ever since. I believe yours is a cast fake from...
ROTFL!! That one will never circulate :D
You also have to remember guys, to many, many dealers these modern commems are just novelty items. They don't even think of them as coins.
Yes, I've explained it several times. Short version they used 2 edge dies - 1 fixed & 1 moveable. The coin was placed between on a flat table and...
I like ! :thumb:
Paula - what date and mint is the coin ? Yes, some dealers will offer maybe 50% - 60% of value. Other dealers (good ones) will offer anywhere...
You wanna see scary - take a look at this. 1796 dollar
nesvt - I gotta ask, did you clean the coin up any before submitting it ?
There are more than a few who will swear that PCGS does.
Gonna have to agree on this one.
The edge is what gives it away, see that line below the rectangles and circles - it aint supposed to be there.
Good point Toad, hadn't thought of it that way.
Now THAT is cool ! :cool:
A better pic of the one I posted - [IMG]
Sure there's a process - you dip it in, you rinse it off - all done.
You need to remember that a US coin's obv and rev are rotated 180 degrees from each other. So your pics would be like this -
Do you guys know what happens when a coin is broadstruck ? It gets larger in diameter than it is supposed to.
Greatest secret ?? Hardly, not a secret at all. It's just that nobody here knows it. I feel confident I'll never have to visit this thread again ;)
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