The problem I see with the idea of bribery in the TPG is who are you going to bribe and how many of them? Bribing the package openers/data entry...
Yep, they made 120 million of them for circulation that year.
And PRICELESS is usually available for $10 - $15.
Conder token, Middlesex D&H 991, part of the "national series". The reverse die is actually dated 1790 and was engraved by John G Hancock of...
Denver didn't strike coins for any other country in 1926. Notice the coin appears to have cud above the I in LIBERTY that includes the edge...
Hmm Newport Beach, I wonder where it was going. And I bet it probably WASN'T sent Registered. (Gotta get it there faster! Instead it didn't get...
You acetone that one you;ll get rid of the lacquer, but the whizzing will probably become more apparent.
If the reverse die is softer than the obv die , yes. But in this case a mint worker has used an emory stick to grind off the traces of the clash....
OK so why were you highlighting that with no explanation in the OP? It presents the impression that the piece must be something special, which it...
Second year for the plated cent, but the first year they used it for proofs. The plating gave them problems so the next year they used a thicker...
But the galvanic corrosion requires water in order to proceed, so any inhibitor that keeps water away from the Cu/Zn juction witll stop that form...
Yes it can be done, I've done it myself, but the coin tends to be slightly concave which makes it difficult to remove the nickel on the rims....
Lobbying, probably not, but grinning all the way to the bank.
I'm not sure you can use the term "minimal effort" when you are talking about attributing late dates. Especially in less than XF.
Of course an online only auction has a much higher return rate from dissatisfied bidders. As anyone that has attended a live auction and viewed...
Highly unlikely. More likely would be to lose the copper and have just the clad layers but that is also very unlikely. And it you did managed to...
It's not a matter of winning me over, you're preaching to the choir. I've been doing it so long that to me it is self-evident. Buying the annual...
When blanks are punched from the strip they have flat surfaces. If they were struck that way the centers would be strong and the coins would be...
sounds about right.
Who says they can? Take some 69's crack them out and resubmit them raw and some of them will probably come back as 70's. Take some 70's, crack...
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