This article gets reposted from time to time I've seen it on a couple different forums since it was first published last year. Notice the date...
If you strike say 9 billion coins at one mint, and you are running 24/7/365 That would be 24,657,535 a day or 1,027,397 per hour or 17,123 per...
Break in the plating allowed zinc rot (zinc oxide) to begin pushing up the plating. Then the rot either crumbled away or something dissolved the...
Paddy is correct the other coin hit at an oblique angle pushing three dimples INTO the coin and pushing UP the three raised marks you noticed.
1965's are not all silver. They are coppernickel clad on a copper core. If the core on yours looks like silver then something was done to it...
If it looks like the one in the original post, 25 cents. If it is the same size as a regular quarter or slightly less, possibly with the edge...
But not hard at all for a hub cut by computer scanning of a genuine coin.
In ten years I'd say about a dollar, fifty cents for the face value and fifty cents for the "dealer nuisance" charge.
On that second link the last line about a press that makes 10,000 coins per minute is wrong. Back in 1969 they did have an experimental rotary...
I'm not sure about the ENTIRE market. :) Over the past twenty years some of the stuff I collect has quintupled in prices.
Pattern standard dollar, J-1554
Lots of foolish things figured into GPA, most noticeably homework. I gave up on homework in the fifth grade, it was worthless busy work. I also...
Not in the image, but how difficult do you think it would be for them to have a valid number on the ones they deliver? I'm sure they would like...
I took the lower grade, didn't see any sense in paying the extra money especially since I already had perfectly good shorts and had no need to buy...
The dies are annealed to soften them for the hubbing. In the case of the multiple squeeze hubbing the die would again be annealed between...
Also note how much further the small date 2 is from the rim as compared to the large date 2.
Is it actually a regular 1865? My understanding was that that was the one coin missing from his collection. He had included a proof 1865 rather...
The dies are NOT annealed prior to polishing.
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Yes I have. Dan Holmes large cent collection was the most complete set ever assembled lacking only two varieties (Both unique, one permanently...
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