Yeah, I don't know if I could buy a more cool example of a strike through grease.
okay, just for fun, I had to buy this . . ....
Awesome color!
Nice coin . . . don't worry about the tarnish. In this case it doesn't affect either the grade or the value of the coin.
Looks right to me, but the jury's out until NGC gives the word.
Okay, here's a stretch . . . Indian cent struck on Barber dime planchet blanked from cent stock.
Nice coin Larry.
I believe you are referring to die erosion . . . if it is, you should see similar lines running radially from the stars to the rim as well.
Don't mess with success.
I ran both of those possibilities through my mind, and neither explains what I see.
I do not see what I'm looking for in your images, but maybe you can see it in person. Is there any frost-fade in the depression?
Stumped, I am . . .
In addition to the affordability of the smaller coins, they are also more popular among those who would wear gold coins as jewelry, further...
I would not jump to that conclusion. The Philly, Denver and San Fran mints may have used presses of different tonnages to blank the planchets,...
It was larger both in length and in width of the strip.
I saw a much larger piece of webbing at the FUN Show, large enough to make six or eight pieces of the size shown in the post above. That piece...
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There is actually one possibility I can envision . . . Imagine two blanks being fed into the coining chamber, one on top of the other. That...
Looked to me like a Doug Winter coin, so I went to his site and easily confirmed that to be the case. Great looking coin.
Here are some more newps: A very lightly marked PCGS AU58 1905 Double Eagle . . . [ATTACH] [ATTACH] A very original 1886-S Morgan, very PQ in...
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