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@JDark, kudos to you! and thanks for spreading the word. It very scary when a big name dealer passes fakes (unknowing I'm sure) (View Post)

It's not a "silver issue" per se. Philadelphia Mint used wrong planchet to strike the coin. There are a handful of wrong planchet error coins across all minted coins including US ones.… (View Post)

1988 Soviet Union silver 3 Rouble coin honoring the Grand Principality of Kiev. Vladimir I, the Great (980-1015) silver Srebrennik which is considered one of the earliest Kievan Rus' coins. 1989… (View Post)

Here's some of my bimetalic coins: (View Post)

Restrikes are easily identifiable from the original 1898 strikes. There is one easy tell which is the position of the "O" in Mo mint mark: The 2nd tell is the number of the beads on the bac… (View Post)