There were no P mintmarks on US coins in 1959.
Absolutely a replica. Sorry. :(
[ATTACH] Oh... no pictures of baseball coins handy (and I do have a collection), but here's the wallpaper on my computer...
Live in the Metroplex, have a Rangers season ticket mini-pack, and am a die hard GIANTS fan. With that combination, you might imagine that I had...
I love that coin as a 50.
Nice luster, but there's an awful lot of chatter on the obverse, and it doesn't look like the slab. To me, it's only a gem at arm's length.
Au63
I usually have trouble with AU grades. Guessed 53, although a 55 or even a 58 would not surprise me much.
Ngc 65.
You can't eliminate the 5c coin if you have a 25c coin, unless you eliminate the 10c coin as well. I think we're still some years away from seeing...
Well, Dave knows his stuff. :)
Of course it's ridiculous. :) But then I've seen circulating counterfeit Ikes. Everything he says about the coin is consistent with a counterfeit...
The second he gets a cent of seignorage, that's exactly what he's doing. IF the coins are used strictly as private barter tokens in a closed...
There were a couple of types that did have the denomination on the reverse, specifically the 1796-97 halves and the 1804-07 quarters. But you're...
If there's a bear on it, it's fake. If you're lucky, it has a little gold.
Without seeing any pictures, that sounds like a simple circulating counterfeit. However, that would be a really weird coin to counterfeit.
I'm actually very surprised the "gold coin" wasn't a Sacagawea. :)
58 because of rub on the obverse
What you said.
The West Point Assay office also made mintmark-less cents for a time in the 70s and 80s. That facility didn't become a mint until 1983, I think.
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