By Ken Potter – NLG Image courtesy of NGC On August 28, Numismatic Guarantee Corporation of Sarasota, Fla., posted notice on its website that it had graded the first known example of a 1973-S uncirculated Ike dollar struck on a copper-nickel clad planchet. This coin, Struck at the San Francisco Assay Office, in its satiny […]
Photo © Ken Potter 2007 / Coin Courtesy of Tracy Miller 1969-D Washington Quarter With a Type B Reverse Q: While attending the Baltimore 2003 Errorama, James Wiles did an ANA Numismatic Theatre Presentation on the Washington Quarter Reverse Design Varieties. The CONECA website gets questions about these so often that I asked James if […]
Images courtesy of John Caswell Q: John Caswell sent an email asking about the potential rarity of two basic hub types that can be found on the reverse of the 1900 Barber quarter (for all Mints). On the so-called Ty-II Reverse the wing tip over the E of UNITED does not touch the right lower […]
SARASOTA, FLA. (February 13, 2017) — Numismatic Guaranty Corporation® (NGC®) has certified the only known example of a 1982-D Small Date cent struck in bronze. The unique coin was discovered in November by an anonymous collector in Minnesota after he decided to examine a hoard of bronze cents that he had accumulated from circulation. In […]
