To strike an image on a sanding disk of the type shown by the OP, a high-speed, high-powered press wouldn't be needed. A reverse die, an ASE, and...
........ Not in my living room ..... not unless I want to sleep there too ..... :( Wouldn't you need a pair of incuse, reversed-image dies to...
My wife and I will be touristing in DC in a couple of weeks. Mostly will do museum-hopping including the National Numismatic Collection. Will...
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of coining lore, While I nodded, nearly...
Probably made deliberately in quantity by a mint employee. Would go through the exit metal detector without setting it off. Should they be...
Their was also a fire. So add in heat, then being sprayed with water and maybe fire suppressants. Emergency equipment rolling over them, spilled...
Actually occurred in a construction zone south of Wilmington, DE. Walking there isn't advisable either. Some blanks probably made it into the...
My thought is they can't helped but be influenced. I remember a couple of years ago asking a NGC official at a show if the grades on PCGS slabs...
Amazing find. I need to start looking in the register drawer when I shop. A little surprising that if the clerk accepted them for payment, they...
I was only illustrating the big variation in transit time. A I was only illustrating the variation in transit times. As you correctly point out,...
All it takes is a little hiccup in a router between the sniping site and eBay (and there could be dozens of routers between the sites). By the...
So, is this classified as a shipwreck coin? ;)
I looked at the company's website and did a bit of research on the net. Elemetal Vault is part of Elemetal LLC, which is a privately held company...
Great first ancient. Flip may be vinyl. If so, store it something else. I find the Roman Republic to be the most interesting area, followed by...
OK. Probably be a nice Lodi zin or syrah, probably both.:) Cal
One thing that has kept me from putting together an exhibit of valuable coins is worry about revealing myself in public as the owner of such....
If you're limited to standard issue coin show cases, the options are limited. Good lighting is a must. Dark velvet lining looks neat. You can...
I probably wouldn't be interested in the coins either. Hopefully they wouldn't put a CC mint mark (or other mint that wasn't active in 1964) on...
For the new coins to be the correct weight, MS or AU coins would have to be used as planchets. There might be worries though about the quality of...
The 1964 Peace dollars were struck at the Denver mint in 1965. But aren't hubs usually created without mint marks, which are punched into dies...
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