Since this thread has been resurrected from the grave it raises an interesting question about Philadelphia issues with no mint mark. The 1922...
There used to be a company that would pick out certain serial numbers for bills. I suppose they would get a request and then get bundles of new...
And they're still not there as of my 2003A series. Conn. never followed up on their concerns?
Probably something like this. Do $5's have two stripe positions? I guess nobody bothers to make counterfeit $2's.[IMG]
Being interested in coins only, I know little to nothing about paper so this may be a dumb question. I do understand that condition is everything...
There is a type of Russian Gull called a Vega. That is apparently what your picture depicts. There are several companies that have the word Vega...
Nice Indian and Walker, but I have to ask - Why the beat up SBA?
Oh well, back into the junk pile it goes.
At first glance, it looked to me like the coins was coated with something like shellac that dried and cracked. Try picking at some of the edge...
Remember 3 and 4 years ago when all the "experts" were predicting that gold would hit $2000 "by the end of the year"? Fact is that no one knows...
This is odd. I don't know if that is a die break or what. I wouldn't think a die could break only in the middle without extending to the rim....
When in full production mode the presses run at high speed. In set up mode, as when dies are first installed and tested for orientation, strike...
That's a good point and probably true. So I'll propose another way it could have been done deliberately in the Mint (it is well known that mint...
Do you have pictures or searchable references to the "...many similar counterfeits [you] encountered..."?
Why is it that so many are so quick to jump on the PMD Bandwagon, especially before they have all the data? There is apparent marking from a...
How's this one? [img]
In my non-expert opinion it seems like it could be a test piece for aligning the reverse die. In other words, a die new die pair was put in the...
I'm a bit less optimistic now since I read the site http://www.thesandpit.net/index.php?option=1923_halfpenny. The key seems to be the shape of...
From what I could find out, which wasn't a whole lot, the dies were delivered to the mint with the 192 already stamped in and the mint then added...
I was going through my junk foreign coins and checking for any value when I think I may have struck gold. I have no idea where most of these came...
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