2015-P Cud on Jefferson's Nose?

Plus on Felix Schlag's initials? It looks like some type of cut in the coin or maybe PMD...??

 

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A cud is a break on the rim that extends into the field.

Chris

 

Not a cud, sorry, it looks like metal moved around from further up the nose. But you DO have a die crack running down the building and ending in a die break/chip at the initials. Still a good find.

 

Sorry guys. My fault, I meant to say Die Chip not cud. Thanks for the feedback. Happy New Year..

 

A metal booger?

Chris

 

Don't you hate it when that happens?

 

Hey, my whole collection is one big booger! Jefferson's nose is just a small part of it. But I'm having fun!

 

Kudos. Some people just wanna take the fun out of coin collecting.

 

You're singing my song! If there was a reality show for coin collectors, I would watch it all day long!

Hey, usmc60?? Me too! Except I'm usmc62. Where were you stationed? And don't say Vietnam.... we both missed that one.

 

On Oki just after the ship incident,( camp swab Okinawa) simplify.

 

Hmmmm, interesting. I was at Marine Barracks, Ft. Meade.

Semper Fi!

 

Hey, gotta run. William Devane is on TV. Gotta go buy some gold! : )

 

Chris why do and so many other want to see coins melted down which is against the law so much, as I stated before some of us are blue collar collectors, and some of those blue collar collectors, and not concerned about monetary value like so many of you, I don't know maybe the hardcore collectors on the site, enjoying blowing the dreams of little children out of water, yes I would like to own my own Central America coin, even with all its controversy, but I just can't afford it like a lot of blue collar workers. Remember as it was abruptly stated to me, there are children on the site, and I'd like to leave you with this saying, (do as I say not as I do)

 

TJ if you have cable check your cable listings I quite often watched the coin show, I may not agree with a lot of the prices they are charging but sometimes it's interesting. (Like the new star track coins)

 

What coin show are you talking about on cable?

 

Blue collar? What would you call a bartender? That was me!

I've had so many setbacks in my life, that if I couldn't inject some levity into the everyday parts of it, I would probably go insane. After military service and divorce, bartending was the best thing that ever happened to me. I got to look at the funny things in life in a much broader spectrum.

I'm not trying to disillusion the young collectors about the hobby, but I do think it is important to wake them up to the reality of what is valuable and what is not. We keep getting the novice collectors asking, "What is this worth?", but they don't realize that a coin, any coin, is only worth face value unless someone is willing to pay more for it.

As for melting coins, I have never advocated this whether there is a law against it or not. But, someone has to wake the uninformed collectors up to the fact that the 95% copper Lincoln's are not worth their weight in copper. Actually, they're worth less than face value. Refiners will only pay about 25% of the price of Grade A copper because the copper has to be extracted from the alloyed coin.

I think you might have misunderstood about melting coins. A lot of people refer to junk silver based on the going price. It is often called "melt value" or even "spot price". Both have the same meaning, but these collectors are not really advocating melting the coins because like many of them, there are others who would be happier than a pig in slop to have these coins in their collection.

I hope this helps!

Chris

 

Your reply is more than appreciated, I can really relate to what you're saying having spent most of my youthful years as a doorman bouncer cooler whatever you want to call club security, been there and in my opinion we are the working man the grunts of society. And I could be wrong but I think they do call us blue collar workers. As far as I can remember when our country had shortage of silver the usa melted down a lot of Morgan silver dollars. All I'm saying Chris be honest with the young and old new collectors, Chris I know you're reading some of the other post and you can see it as well as I do the quote sorry your coin has no value. Kinda hits the new collector below the belt.

 

TJ all I've ever known it to be was the coin show, I've only been watching it for the last 16 years, check your listings, TJ not tried to be a sa but really all I know it is as the coin show. It's on one of those shopping networks.

 

maybe some of the other members can help you out with this one.

 

Most of the Morgan dollars that were melted was the result of the Pittman Act. It wasn't because the US had a shortage, but because the British Empire needed the silver in India.

What do you want me to do? Should I lie to the novice collectors, and let them believe that their coins are worth more than they really are? How do you think they would feel if they took those very coins to a B&M expecting to sell them for a profit only to be laughed out of the place?

Chris