Polishing of planchets is done by tumbling in a chemical solution with steel shot. That's not going to give you straight parallel lines. The...
She gave you a picture of a dime? :)
I prefer the original 1970 hardbound edition. It just seems to me that the images in it are better than in the softbound versions.
It is a 1965, and it is off-centered not a broadstrike (Part of the design is off the edge of the coin, most noticeably the tops of the T's in...
Nine cents back the time that was done would be roughly the equivalent of a dollar today. So it's be like asking would you do that much work to...
If someone were to actually find a WAM on a 1995 D, then yes it would make a big difference. And until last year there were no (zero, zilch,...
Yes it said it contained both metals, but what percentages. If it can really read through the plating it should've come back with 97.5% zinc 2.5%...
I'd say both coins of been cleaned, the first one is still horribly unattractive, I think the second has been recolored it still is off but better...
The piece in the original post is probably not a token, more likely a game counter. Carved Buffalo nickel is a very attractive piece. Note I call...
It does not appear to be a modern fake, and it looks genuine. The one thing to do now is to check the weight to see whether or not it is a...
No it isn't, in fact in the early years the U. S. mint the mint itself did the plugging. In at least the first two years of our silver coins the...
They don't select all the designs at the same time. I'm sure they haven't made selections for 2020 yet. We'll see those sometime next year.
The reason the 1975 sets contain the 1974 coins was probably because the sets were available for purchase at the mint early in the year, but the...
It's most likely the PCGS population report, of course that would only include the coins the PCGS's are degraded, how many more of these may still...
There were at least 15 aluminum cent struck in 1975, but they were often Philadelphia. As with the 1974's there was absolutely no authorization...
I don't know where my pieces at the moment, can the two of you get weights for your medals? That might tell us if the second one is silver or just...
After a coin is struck, the anvil die rises to push the coin out of the collar (actually I'm not sure if the die rises or if the caller is pushed...
It's all a matter of splitting hairs and deciding what you're going to call something. A die break, by definition, is when a piece of the die...
That one does appear to be a broadstruck. All off-centers are also going to be slightly larger than a regular coin. The difference between an...
The thing is you don't GET kids interested in coins collecting. You expose them to it, and it either takes or it doesn't. It doesn't take, there's...
Separate names with a comma.
