The mint had problems with ALL the shield nickels due to the alloy. They had problems with laminations and the hardness of the alloy quickly...
Easiest way to spot the 1922 high relief is to look at the spike just at the right of the E in LIBERTY. If the spike barely reaches the top edge...
So Paddy has all three varieties of the 1828 half cent. (two varieties of the 13 and one of the 12 star)
I have some historical exchange rate in for and it went kind of like this In 1983 the Zimbabwe dollar and U were at par so in 1983 1Z$ = 100...
On that Zimbabwe note, that was issued AFTER they had already had two currency revaluations each of which had chopped 12 zeros off the currency....
Depends on how nice the AU bust half was. And the quality of the security video.
Photos way too small to say anything about it.
You shouldn't have Longacre doubling at the date though.
Lost Dutchman came up with the same thing I thought of about the scale. If yu go back and have it weighed again have them weigh a couple regular...
They did the same thing last year with the 2014 coins, and the year before that with the 2013 coins etc. This is nothing new. And are you...
But the price of the bullion coins to Govmint (Which is what they are offering) is spot +$2. Right now that would be $17.76 so they are making...
You gambled, you lost. Take your lumps. Standard operating practices are if you remove it from the sellers holder it is yours and not returnable...
Broken hub. This same type broken D is also often seen on two cent pieces and half dimes. Sometimes on other denominations as well.
The 1963 shilling, is that area on the obv raised or incuse?
I see die deterioration and some finning on the left obv rim.
It can't be a 1965 or 66 though because they didn't start using the P mintmark on the quarters until 1980. There is a 1982 P I believe though...
And one of them MIGHT be rarer than the #1 55 DDO, (I don't know, not my field) but they aren't more expensive. As stldanceartist pointed out...
MELT Sodium Chloride?? Yeah I guess it can be done, but it should be interesting trying. I does supposedly melt at 1475 degrees F but I wouldn't...
Nope the three line was the type II 1854 - 1858 (Star and two outlines) The 1859 - 1873 has the star and one outline around it.
What do you know, acid soaking works on the clad dollars too.
Separate names with a comma.
