A brief acetone soak will strip the oil from the coin. Olive oil is slightly acidic. Virgin olive oil (from the first pressing of the olives has...
No, the reverse is not fully struck. Note that the round domes are not full inside the ornaments on the C. and that they seem smaller and unequal...
Is it stupid? No. Do I think there is any potential for an increase in value? Again No. Why? Because a LOT of people will be putting back...
Which means that there are less than a million business strikes of each and less than a million satin finish strikes of each. (Mint sets was less...
$200 for a die chip. Of course I suppose I shouldn't boggle too much, there are the mouse heads in the large cents of 1817 and 1819 that attract...
The obv is nice, the rev is bad.
I would bet the copper cents will be in the proof sets as well. No way they are only going the have a 50,000 mintage.
I would agree #3, and numbers 2 and 3.
True, but the designs haven't been picked and the coins haven't been struck. All it would take is an amendment to a bill, that's how we got the...
Probably never. After two years of trying to get it passed it still hasn't been authorized and now that a new Congress has begun it has to go...
The set could be considered an annual product offering as well depending on wheither you cnsider "annual product offerings" to mean those...
Actually the head changes get started in 1834 There are something like eight different head designs between 1834 and 1839. And here are 5...
ou found an OLD magicians coin were they just ground down the coins and glued them together instead of using a lathe to hollow out the cent and...
About the only time a die clash has value is if it is REALLY excessive, or if it is a clash of two mismatched dies.
I agree, it sounds like an Austrian 2 Heller piece (But most of those you see are 1896) A picture would be most helpful.
I just want to make one point. If you go back to any of those eras when you fel we had beautiful coins and read the contemporary opinions about...
No I don't consider them to be coins, just as I don't consider proofs to be coins. My definition of a coin (I don't know if I posted it earlier...
I love that one woman in their commercial "I sent them my diamond engagement ring from my first marriage. I would never believef i could get so...
Blast, I read something about that specific medal not too long ago but now I can't remember where it was. It may have been in the first book of...
The fractional parts ceased to be legal tender after 1809. The Spanish 8 reales were not legal tender between 1809 and 1843. At that time they...
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