Amazon has two sellers with new copies at about $30 plus $4 shipping...
Since he said the USED to be wrapped in a copper band, I would assume what his LCS has are piece where the outer ring has either been cut away or...
Yep, collar clash. The portion of the die that makes the top flat part of the rim clashed with the edge of the collar leaving a mark that shows...
Postal scales won't do. They are only accurate to a tenth of an OZ or about 2.8 grams. True but they will only cost you a couple of cents to...
You keep them until you understand them, then you use them to teach others.
my first thought is post mint damage.
It may not be from another country, Some one had a couple of thse awhile back that didn't match any known coin that the mint had done for another...
Still a good thread, shows how several people analyze the coin, our thought processes, and that we can have a civil disagreement.
You don't show anything but the rebound spine of the books so I can't tell much about those, but I suspect it might be a copy of Ding, less likely...
The photos aren't very good but I'm fairly sure they are both fakes. Better images would help. The facial features of Liberty do not look right...
There are more than eight, they don't tell you everything.
The thing is you DON'T need to pay the $45 -$50 Mint Error fee to get it slabbed and graded. You only have to pay that if you want the error...
A good way to start is to start taking a table at the smaller coin shows and start working the circuit. You can work at buying and selling, build...
No one paid extra for the 2000 P mint roll, the mint did not sell rolls that year, but they did ship out the rolls direct to the banks in the...
You can't draw a straight line across the basses of the ED because the bases of those two letters are at an angle to each other. the best you...
The orientation of the ED to the C in the first strike seems fine to me.
I think Leadfoot has the answer. The first off-center strike had another planchet between this coin and the obverse die. This coin would have...
The coin does get hot during striking but not that hot. From images of the coins being struck you can see that it is not hot enough to cause a...
There is no cud. And that is the C from CENT just east of 6 o;clock. The ED in the wreath are the ED of UNITED. The coin was first struck...
Jello, that seems WAY off topic to me. I don't see how it relates to the topic at all except Jhinton showed one of the topic coins being sold on...
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