One comment, I believe these were made in 2009, not 2008.
Drusus, I hope you don't take this wrong, but those two engraved nickels are numismatically worthless. Or maybe worth just face value. But as...
If it is real the dealers price may be fair, but there are a LARGE number of fakes coming out of China of rare crown size coins.
In every case where you say "master die" you actually mean either master hub or working hub. Your description This sounds more like off-set...
I'd call it an uncentered broadstrike, not an off-center.
I do like that Mark Penny. I've seldom seen them with the members name actually engraved on them
Well I would hope that usually a persons submission is kept together. As for what address to put on the package that would be printed by the...
Can you say 50K+ Washington dollars with no edge lettering? (Which means no date or mintmark)
Well to me the coins aren't that interesting but the Masonic penny is a neat item, especially since it can be traced to a specific person, and...
I know that David Hall states that they do not submit any coins directly to PCGS. But I also noticed for the longest time that whenever a new...
For general reference on US coins my favorite in the 1990 edition of the Coin World Almanac. It has almost everything that the Redbook does and...
Especially since in the first case PCGS didn't recognize the coin as being an altered date cent, and in the second Heritage didn't recognize the...
That's what it sounds like, a complete set of Bicentennial quarter P&D Unc clad, S Proof clad, S 40% silver unc, and S 40% silver proof. Sounds...
Weel if you are seeing thm being sold on eBay and they are actually selling for 200 to 400 pounds, then you should be able to get somewhere in...
The "Sheldon" Rarity Scale is the most commonly used scale and it is a 1 to 8 scale. There are other scales and one commonly used for tokens is a...
I may be a bit of a wet blanket on this but I wouldn't travel for three hours to get to a 36 table show. I don't know where you live but I would...
Stresses induced in the die body during the hardening process can cause the die to possibly crack as soon as it is put into use or to even crack...
Aluminum is more expensive but you can make about three times as many cents from a pound of aluminum than you can from a pound of zinc. That...
I have no idea what Heritage is talking about on the small size note and micro/macro plate numbers. I know there are mule small size notes but I...
Another problem is the NGC images are scans of the coins in the slab, not photos of the coin before it was slabbed and the scans are often not of...
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