I'm not sure what is going on with 4 and 5. Might be tilted hub doubling, might be a clash. I can't tell.
There are several prisons that have used plastic tokens internally.
Anything is worth collecting if you enjoy it. Doesn't matter what the items are "worth". The corollary is also true. If you don't enjoy them...
True but it doesn't matter. The guarantee exclusion said INCLUDING modern silver coins, it it didn't restrict it just to modern silver coins....
I'll be at the Greater Cincinnati Numismatic expo in Sharonville OH this weekend (suburb of Cincinnati). I'll be there on the 11th and part of...
So charge $2.25 and make a dime profit instead.
I think pictures 1 and 3 may represent tilted hub doubled dies. Are they worth keeping? Well to me they wouldn't be worth anything (I think most...
Bugo, they may be more common where you are. I've gotten two wheat cents in change in the last 25 years.
Josh, do you know who bought them out?
The 1913 V nickel in general or the Olsen specimen in particular? The 1913 in general is very well known because of all of B Max Mehl advertising...
That's what I need, bring it back down to size. :)
Actually it states that it MAY be inscribed if the Mint Director desires it and the Sec of the Treasury approves. It was not mandatory. That...
Thanks for the compliments, but you folks are going to give me a swelled head.
Typically candlesticks/candelabras etc are weighted. They are a silver shell over a "cement" interior that provides the weight to keep them from...
What's it worth as melt? The candelabra in it's present form would be too hard to move, too recognizable. It would have to be melted down to...
Unless their forklift ran over it several times.
Most likely the rendering was done early on and they were considering both a proof and an Unc version. They made renderings of both and when they...
I think it is a die crack and here is why. It is a very fine line and it is continuous. If you lightly scratch the field of the die you are...
It is much closer to the ACG slab. Which is understandable because they licensed the slab from Accugrade and ACG designed the shell. If you like...
Doily slabs are worth a premium, but not a huge one. They are not easily obtainable but if you keep looking you will find one (at least at the...
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