I remember some kind of argument between Bowers & Ruddy and EAC over grading back in the 70's. Don't recall how it ended.
The two holes and the way the metal pushes out by the holes, are there for a reason. It cost money to do that so why would they do it if it was...
What's wrong with the other rarity scales?
There he goes now. Looks like he's chasing a Booker T. with delicate hues of summer breeze pastels. [IMG]
Sounds like a @cladking question.
We probably don't have to worry about AI enslaving humanity for awhile.
Defiant Eagle [IMG]
Exquisitely circulated with splashes of playful rubbing.
Ernestine is hot. [MEDIA]
It has come to pass that a unique 1946-D Roosevelt Dime with designer initials UJ instead of JS has recently surfaced. Mint spoksperson Ernestine...
Yes. Just as some people collect toy banks or Mint canvas bags.
I started out collecting silver art bars in 1974. COINS magazine (for art bar ads) and Carl Allenbaugh got me started on coins. He was the "cool...
Maximilian folks were not very lucky. That one ^ got a Mexican firing squad. According to Jakob Fugger's biography: The Richest Man Who Ever...
These two don't like the idea. [MEDIA]
[IMG] Anything with a bird of prey on It. It must be a great advantage for them when it's "Madder than A March Hare" time. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
What about Bondo or JB Weld? :troll: Or metal from the planchet when it's in a semi solid state as it's being struck?
Seems like a hair line crack in a planchet would fill-in when it was struck. But I'm just guessing. Anyone know whether it would or not?
Crack in the die. They were also nicknamed a devil's tail if they went through any letters in GOD.
Was someone putting 1955 DDOs in cigarette packs? I know there was time when they put 2cents in vending machine packs as change.
Errors have come a long way since the days of FIDOs---Freaks, Irregularities, Defects and Oddities. In the very early days of the 1955 DDO...
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