These are getting SCARY good.
The class I's yes, but the piece pictured in the photo is a class III, they were re-strikes clandestinely made and left the mint unofficially...
There are very few original early sets left intact today, John J Pitman had a cased 1841 and a cased 1843 set. He may have had a couple of of...
According to a recent press release, the gray sheet is going to be combining all their different sheets into a single publication. Don't know...
Tommyc03 has it exactly backward. Paddyman98 has it correct.
Yep S-76b. ONE CENT very high in the wreath with the point of a leaf close to the right serif of the E in ONE. That's the reverse of 76. The...
Yes basically the same thing, a perfect die before any cracks or other defects develop. (That is if I understand what "prime die state" means"...
There may also be some difference in the cross section of the upset edge between business strikes and proofs that would allow a proof planchet to...
Yes, don't enlarge the image if you know what's good for you.
rte, The original post with the list of coins being sold is from almost 8 years ago. I don't think emailing for pictures would do much good.
I don't believe they have always used cameo, but it did enter use very early on.
Typical die life for a cent die is around 33 hours.
That it jumps to the magnet is a good sign. But there are fakes from China of this coin as well. A weight would be useful and of course images....
Did you look at them in person or just images online? Images can be deceiving. No, the mint did not go out of their way to create a cameo finish...
Note that the cents are in circular spaces, the mint sets from the mint did not have circular openings. This would require a custom sealing die....
Yes the 1800 S-203 is almost always seen with that heavy die clashing on the reverse. It damaged the reverse and caused the die to sink there at...
They are all called and slabbed as proofs today, but back it their early years they were all business strikes. Same thing with the 1894 S barber...
1964 Kennedy's were NOT minted in San Francisco. No mention that the 65 -67 Kennedy's had no mintmarks no matter where they were made. Or that...
Unless the obv die was damaged so severely that they changed the obv die.
Wide, and you get better results if you start a new thread and not tacking it onto a thread that died 4 years ago.
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