I recall a website that documented how raw notes were sold on eBay, only to appear in auctions later certified at much higher grades. Of...
It's not an uncut sheet. These were printed in sheets of twenty, five rows and four columns. I have a horizontal strip of three of the same series.
Counterfeit maybe. Strange markings on both sides, doubling of the date and of "five cents" on the reverse. It wouldn't be nutty to counterfeit...
V nickels are of a classic late Victorian design. Buffalo nickles are of a modernist design, like Lincoln cents. In 1913, the V nickel design...
While it is an "error", it's so minor and obscure that it isn't worth $5,500. More like $50. Error collectors like a spectacularly bungled note,...
It's an offset error. The previous sheet was torn or folded as it went through the printing of the black seal and district numbers, and the ink...
Isn't it a Maundy coin?
I know it's pointless to rail against reality, and the only thing that's permanent is change. Nonetheless, as a collector who started with a...
Perhaps there is a way to distinguish "legal to own" from "illegal to own". Many pattern coins, including the 1974 aluminum cent, were...
Human faces are an excellent subject for banknotes, because we are evolved to notice the slightest differences among them. The person who...
It's not a banknote. It's a specimen printing. That might make it worth much more than an ordinary piece of currency, but I don't know enough...
Thanks Paddy54. I'm returning to collecting after an absence caused by circumstances, and don't have access to all the reference material that I...
I think you're right 16d, but I'd sure like an image to compare my coin with.
Hello everyone. Some of you might remember that I was previously a regular poster here. I had some experiences that caused me to stop posting for...
Looks like machine doubling to me. An artifact of old and/or poorly seated dies.
I recently acquired a really nice 1939 S nickel, Reverse of 1938, that has what seems to be a strongly repunched mintmark. Can't find any visual...
One side is in the style of Chinese cash coins. The other has a abstract design I've not seen before. Cash coins have a long and storied...
TR thought putting the name of God on money demeaned God. After all, money is used for all manner of vile purposes, by all manner of godless...
Dropped $70+ this morning, now hovering around $1800. Gold and platinum inverted yesterday, that seems often to presage a steep drop in gold.
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