Conder101

Smashed Mangled and Scraped?

I recommend watching the video with the sound off.

What they are calling 1964 SMS coins did come from the Eva Adams estate, they were sold at auction in 1991, they did NOT come in 5 coin plastic holders, and they are not actual SMS coins just first strike from new dies.(Although why new dies should have so much heavy die polishing lines I don't understand.)

Shrimp maybe, probably couldn't get the king crab, supply chain problems you know.

Yes but if they changed the composition to aurate-brass plated, or steel (as Mohawk suggested) they would need "retooling" wouldn't they? I agree that if the dollar note was discontinued they wouldn't need retooling to accept the current dollar coins. I don't think any vending machine made in the past 20 years doesn't have the capability to accept the dollar coins.

I expected the notgeld as well.

It might have if they had continued it. The promotion only lasted a month. But during that month Walmart distributed nearly 100 million dollar coins. It took the Fed almost 2 years to distribute that many after the promotion ended. And it definitely would have worked if the dollar note had been discontinued at the same time. Canada used the SBA as their model for the Loonie. They looked at all the reasons the SBA failed and did the opposite. They all did. The only country that didn't was the US, and it is the only country where the coin has failed. But during that 21 month period the Loonie was a failure. It didn't become widely used and successful until after the $1 note was withdrawn. They learned their lesson and withdrew the $2 not at just about the same time as the introduction of the twoonie.

Looks like it has been ground down and since then the zinc has corroded giving it a dark appearance.

And exporting ancients from Bulgaria is illegal I believe. If I remember the government stance is any coins/antiquities dug up out of the ground belong to the government.

Buy MS-69's, cover the grades. Looks just like a MS-70 set.

Ride whatever gets you there, The mail MUST go through!

Yes there are collectors of wooden money, both the rounds and the flats. There is an International Organization of Wooden Money Collectors, and a Canadian Association of Wooden Money Collectors. (I believe the IOWMC was originally the Society of Wooden Money Collectors two of the Presidents of that organization were members of one of my local coins clubs, the Louisville Coin Club. It isn't a market I'm involved with, but I know it exists.

And while the "Bugs Bunny" clash marks are best known on the 1955 franklins, they can found on all date and mint Franklins, but they will usually only bring a premium on the 1955's. Why? The result of advertising hype and they fact they managed to get them listed in guides for awhile.

Roger is right it is a somewhat meaningless term that has been used for many things when they were sure exactly what to call something.

Legislation was passed in 1967 that allowed for the return of the mintmarks in 1968. I would assume the S. S. on the white envelope stood for Special Set. Mint sets were labeled UC (Uncirculated Coins) and proof sets were PC (Proof Coins) so Special Set, would make sense. They weren't Uncirculated and they weren't Proof, they were "Special".

Since the collection has the early David Hall and IGA pieces some of the NGC and PCGS slabs may be very early as well. A few of those early slabs can be valuable if they are the right ones.

If that type II planchet was for a 1793 liberty cap it would have had a lettered edge with the edge of 93. Which of course in that slab would not be visible. The price paid was more in line with the lower weight plain edge planchet from the Matron head or braided hair coins. I would expect an actual 1793 planchet to go much higher.

The 1992 Close AM cents are a transitional reverse error. The 1992's were supposed to all have a Wide AM, the 1993's are all the Close AM design. But at least one (and probably only one die at each mint) 1993 rev dies was used at the end of 1992 and created the 1992 with the transitional reverse..

They will sent it back, but you WILL be charged the grading fees, the invoice fee, and the shipping fees. Bassically they will keep all the money and you will getyour piece back if a flip just like you sent it to them, with a label that indicates it is not genuine.

The fine condition of the ring isn't surprising, the coins maybe but I suspect the ones shown have either already been cleaned or is just a stock image of some other coins and not the actual coins from the wreak.

Also all gold coins dated before April 5th 1933 US or domestic could be held. (This was the result of an amendment to the gold regulations in 1954, before that only pre-April 5th US gold could be held) For coins dated after that they could be held as part of a coin collection if it was determined that they were "rare or unusual and of interest to collectors" by submitting to the Treasury Dept for determination. After 1961 the determinations were made by the Office of Domestic Gold and Silver Operations. All gold coins imported had to have a license from the ODGSO and getting the license could be a crapshoot because sometimes they would rule in favor of a coin and then rule against the same coin on another license request.

Yeah, they would have full proof fields (OK, so it's a HALF dollar)

I think the only states that had their own money while they were independent countries were Hawaii, Texas, and Vermont. Puerto Rico had their own money but they haven't become a state yet. Might add Utah, but I don't think they were ever an independent "country"

There have been two different methods. Both involved three ingots of metal, the two outer CuNi layers and the copper center. In both cases the surfaces of the ingots that would be in contact with each other would be ground flat and smooth the idea being that the surfaces should be in as close contact with each other as possible no irregularities, no bumps, no voids. Originally the ingots would then be bonded together using explosive bonding. Explosives would be placed top and bottom and detonated with the force of the explosion welding the pieces of metal together and then the welded ingot would then be rolled into strip. This was one of the reasons the clad material was chosen. It was an anticounterfeiting feature. It was felt that counterfeiters would not be able to do the explosive bonding. Later rather than using explosive they just used very high pressure rolling to bond the three layers together and then to roll it on out into strip. If you google explosive bonding or explosive welding you can find some good explanations and a couple of videos that demonstrate the technique.

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