I don't think it can be a die chip because it shows up in many years. Here's some of mine where it's apparent. It's hard to believe that it's a...
Ditto. I've been doing that piece by piece for a while now - selling off things I'm not collecting anymore, selling off pieces I don't like and...
Lincolns - Yes. Each of these is a distinctly different design, albeit small changes. Nickels - For these modern nickel issues, I only place one...
I don't think they are raised. I see evidence of raised edges on a few lines on the reverse. And die lines are almost universally parallel and...
I'm not convinced those are adjustment marks. Because of the criteria I outlined earlier, I would not consider buying this coin because of that...
I have gotten increasingly cynical about grading, particularly over the last couple of years. Partly that is due to just being better educated...
Here's one bought raw a few years ago. Sent it in for grading knowing it would come back Cleaned. Note the cleaning lines, more than hairlines,...
Who's the bigger nerd now?
I retract the term "hyperbolic" even though it did express my feelings about the hyperbole of high prices. Mathematically however, the term...
Well, let me say first of all that the coins I described are common in terms of total numbers available. The 1866 Rays Shield Nickel is a popular...
I have a book in my library called Numismatic Forgery by Charles M. Larson, c2004. In the Introduction, he speaks specifically about the 1959-D...
That's a neat find. I remember Dad's, Hire's and I worked as a teen at a Dog-n-Suds drive-in that specialized in root beer. But I've never seen...
Went and spent only about an hour there which was enough time to see everything I needed to see and to chat with some acquaintances. Just didn't...
Yes, indeed. I have a friend that is a sophisticated coin and currency collector, among other interests. And he has an extensive collection of,...
That book does show the Variety 2 (JR-2) as an R-5. But that book was published in 1984. The later book by Zack et. al., copyright 2015 Bust...
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