It may have doubling but "doubling does not a doubled die make". I saw your other posts and get the feeling that you may need to learn what...
I carefully looked at both coins again and Charmy's is not a monster, it's a monsters monster by itself or compared with the toned one in this...
Thanks to all this was a good thread, very good!!! Just what folks need to learn and not easily forgotten when pieced out like this, very nice!
If I ever come across has bashing new collectors for collecting modern coins that is the last thing I want to do. People should collect what they...
The purple/blue mint inserts just seem to tone more overall but not just the cloudiness. I've seen the cloudiness factor most often on Proof...
This is not uncommon, some coins do this others don't. People absolutely hate that kind of comment but that's it. If I were the OP and the...
This has always bothered me to but I think it's a great deal human nature to gab and justify what you have, store, save, and how well you may be...
We will of course see a decline in or for several years simply because of the state quarters. Where is good there is always some bad and...
No this is not true. I've owned many toned NGC, PCGS, and ANACS MS-66 Brown copper coins even a large cent PCGS MS-66 Chocolate BN. I've had PCGS...
I'd like to see that and bookmark it also, anyone???
This is a little simplified but a good start for you. # 8 and #7 mean nothing for most practible applications. #8 has nothing to do with the...
No, the hubbing, die preperation, tonage, strike, planchet prep., handling, amount struck - many, many things. Proof is a method of the mints...
I don't like all this TPG and extra stickers at all but what George says is perfectly correct, he knows! Whether they should or not is not the...
If you've got any kind of bank worth anything they should make good on it - I mean there is a paper trail right? Take em in or leave that bank and...
George and the OP. While I was not going to go into detail about these from Info. in "The Authoritive Reference", Wexler, I did find that Kevin...
If we know, and we do, that the average person cannot tell mint set coins from buisness strike, SMS coins from proofs, or modern silver proof...
Well a quick search on this site will give you a lifetime of information on every kind of doubling known to man. One quick tip - the...
I'm sorry but the very last thing on earth we need is more splits and multible numbers in our grading system especially when things such as...
Doug I think the type he's asking about is mechanical/machine doubling and not the true doubled die. That's the way I understood it anyway.
There is certainly many more than that but,,, Barber halfs are sort of hard to get in XF, AU and above. We say often Barber halfs come in 2...
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