Conder101

I seriously doubt if you can unless they have it in a registry set AND have some way set up there for people to contact them. But I would be very surprised if they did. If you have a registry with some nice or special pieces and some way for people to contact you, you get inundated with people wanting to sell you upgrades, or pieces you don't have, or wanting to buy coins out of your set. It could just become an overwhelming nuscience.

Actually proofs have no luster, they have smooth reflective surfaces

And when they receive and sign for the package is NOT when the clock starts for the turn around time. It starts when they actually enter the coin into their system and that can be several days after the package arrives.

No, if a collector submits an unopened monster box with the correct strapping and asks them to certify them as such they will do it. Of course most collectors don't have unopened monster boxes, and the unopened box is the only way to tell where they came from.

You see a lot of slabbed FS nickels that don't deserve the FS designation.

In general...you don't. That's nuts. I don't follow the bullion market much anymore, but it used to be silver eagles tended to trade just two to three dollars over spot. I know the distributors buy them from the Mint at $2 over spot. My guess is the shut downs at San Francisco and West Point got people worked up and they've been bidding them up.

What happened? "LOOK a squirrel!", that's what happened.

Read that and thought "Wait was this 1877 or 1977?"

One thing to remembers, you can send it in, and they will grade it, they will slab it, they may even identify it correctly, but they don't guarantee authenticity. Ancients are not covered under their grading and authenticy guarantee.

WEAR keeps coins from being Mint State, rim nicks, bag marks, scratches etc may kep a coins from straight grading. But by themselves, without wear, will not keep a coin from being MS.

The farthings were struck using a roller press. The dies were two cylinders with 4 or more "striking dies" on each. The strip would be run between the rollers receiving the images on each side. Initially they would be cut square, but then they would be clipped down to a nearly round shape. As for the wire money I have to admit I don't know if the "wire" was cut to weight before striking, of if they struck several pieces on the wire and then cut them apart.

Only one images works and it is rather small. It looks better than a lot of the fakes but I don't think it is real.

I think two of them are heavily worn, they are 90% silver, they are all common date/mints, and they are all worth basically melt value.

Looks lightly polished.

It is a very bad fake 1795 dollar.

After 5 years? The export license had been known about for decades.

Yes, he had a license to deal in gold at the time. Thanks for the correction. I was under the impression he still had his license at the time.

Re-read this section t was NOT a crossover. The coin was sent in, cracked out, conserved, and then graded. Once it was cracked out any "guarantee" or the option to get it back in the original holder if it wouldn't cross, went out the window.

Yes probably a promotional type submission by a dealer (after all you are talking at least 85 coins in the submission) it is also an older slab as that hologram style ended in 2003 when the ANA changed their logo from the Lamp of Knowledge to the Landing Eagle.

Which is missing SEVERAL of the holder varieties.

In THEORY, if you were paid the full spot metal price for copper they would be worth 2 cents, But the spot price is for PURE metal not an alloyed metal. The real world price you might get for the alloyed copper would be about 25% of the spot price which would mean the real world value of the copper in the pre 1982 cents is .5 cents each. Copper spot price would have to approach $8 a pound to get 2 cents real world metal value out of them, and it so hasn't broken $5 a pound and is currently $2.29 a pound.

Looks like machine doubling to me.

No. You could reverse electroplate it to remove the gold but it wouldn't restore the original surface, so it would still be damaged and so just worth melt value.

Slow learner. It's taken 1 1/2 years to acquire 6 days of knowledge.

If you mean on the rev from 7:00 to 10:00, yes that is a rim cud. Fron 2:00 to 6:00 it is showing rim tinning.