Under the current rules you would get a new series if both signatures change. With a new incoming administration there is a fairly good chance we...
Wrong, PVC is a hard brittle plastic. An additive or plasticizer is added to PVC to make is soft and pliable. This plasticizer can leach back...
I wouldn't count on that. If they only had to pass the file over the blank one they will go in one direction, but if they filed, weighed and had...
And thanks to mint tolerances a clad dollar could weigh as much as 23.59 grams and a silver clad can weigh as low as 23.61 grams.
Die crack with the edges of the crack chipping away. No retained cud.
All I see is a die crack, no retained cud.
OK I know Marshall Islands also did Desert Storm coins. Yeah I know Australia doesn't recognize their Independence (Even though they followed all...
They are I believe the oldest currency grader still operating and they date back to maybe the late 90's. Yep the link says 1998. (The first...
Dang those reverse proofs are ugly no matter what coin they are on.
You could probably spend them, in Hutt River Province. And that would be a long trip just to spend the ten dollars. LizS, are you sure that...
Don't hold me to it, but I saw elsewhere that they plan on using the high relief design (from this years gold coin) on the silver medals and...
The pictures were lost when PCGS changed their forum software. I can't update the images because I was banned from that forum many years ago.
You're right 17 does look good with the SIN close together and the I low and almost centered under the diamond.
The corners of the memorial were high stress points in the die and were very frequently the site of die cracks.
Interesting question. Is it a counterfeit if it is made someplace where it is perfectly legal to do so? It is definitely a fake or a copy, but...
Just a quick once over but the obv is looking like 11 to me.
The gap between the 0 and 2 is too wide to be NC-2. On NC-2 they are very close together, especially between the knob of the 2 and the 0.
The two coins in the special P & D set are different. They are the high relief design. Once you know what to look for the two styles are easy to...
If you do some searching online you can probably find images of the 1964 Peace and Morgan dollar master hubs. They were found in the Mint vaults...
I do something like that sometimes, pass around a bunch of coins let people look at them for awhile and then explain they are leper colony issues.
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