If you look at your first picture you can see a line going around the circumference of the coin, that is the seam where the teo pieces were put...
The first piece with the iridescent color in the cuts looks like a NYMike coin, he sold a LOT on Ebay a few years ago and used heat to tone his...
For $15 you can get a scale that weighs to .01 gram delivered to your home. a very small investment for a coin that if it was genuine, would be...
Did he also produce a 40 dollar piece with forty spelled correctly?
My local dealer sells no date buffs for 10 cents a piece so he probably pays 7 cents.
I received the same "coin" in a letter from a Jewish charity earlier this year. Not old by any standard.
IIRC, Frank Gasparro's original drawings of Susan had her younger and less serious looking, but her descendants (and the people in power who...
Imitation noun a thing intended to simulate or copy something else. So you are saying that all metal disks with a design feature are numismatic...
It isn't a copy of any real coin so it doesn't fall under the Hobby Protection Act.
It is a silver medal made by Ron Landis, possibly when he was working at the Texas Renaissance fair in the 80's. His initials are at the rear of...
Style of the bust looks French, might be from a bolo tie. Doubt it is ancient.
Just a short drive for me being just the other side of the cheddar curtain in Racine, Wisconsin.
a $200 rolling mill is going to be a disappointment, don't waste your money. for silver, I either do as you said, melt, cast, and roll out, or I...
I just make a punch and die set for the size blank I need and cut blanks from sheet stock. If I want to overstrike an already struck coin, I...
The reason that no one is encouraging you to show your coin to everyone is that there is no need. The shape of the 2 is not the only difference...
It comes from being ejected from the collar
The hobby protection act was written into law in 1973 (16 CFR 304), it doesn't mean that 1973 is a cut off date for marking copies.
Easy to fake. Make transfer dies from a wheat reverse cent and a 1959 obverse cent, purchase a type II blank and strike your coin. easy if you...
Pistrucci, Metcalfe, Droz, three way tie. Haven't had coffee yet, can't elaborate.
OK, getting back to the coin, there were a lot of die chip issues on the date and LIBERTY with the 1960 cent, and this was an experiment by the...
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