I learned this lesson a few months ago when a whole bunch of people kept commenting on how a "certain name" will be able to tell you if you have...
You coin guys are like purist home brew guys, you get all screwed up by splitting hairs and then forget about how you split so many hairs. And...
But I am thinking, if the large die fragment on the coin I provided a link for never broke away, that E never would have made it there. That...
Not to complicate matters, I know there are many, many new people here but aside from the known cud on this coin it also shows an incuse E from...
And those features struck into successive coins are incusive/negative because the part of the incusive/negative die that transferred to the other...
Alrighty then, thank you.
Why thank you SuperDave. That is exactly the type of thoughtful correspondence I was hoping to draw out with my post. So let me zero in on one...
Links please, I love new stuff.
There is no problem using a usb microscope as long as you know you need to verify anything that looks good by rotating the coin around a little to...
Even though this site specializes in pennies, yeah, I said pennies, these errors can be on any coin. Great info to start with if error coins is...
Oh, oh, oh, how does a depth create a depth. How does an incusive reverse die cause and incusive image on the obverse die. Answer is it can't....
Dumb that down just a bit more for newbs with a learning attitude.
Yeah it is that darn microscope. I thought I had the mother of all multiple split serifs on one of those state quarters they had trouble with...
I forgot about M.
Welcome Thomas! I became interested in coins because of metal detecting too but now I know more about coins than I do metal detecting. That is...
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