What are the pickups? Is it a bit mushy, what gives it away?
That didn't leave the mint like that. Whatever it is happened after it left the mint. PMD
$240 each for circulated and some damaged Morgans?
I hear ya, gotta figure the wear and flattening of the devices, too me nothing stands out as an added MM.
It looks to me like the bottom left MM placement of your collage.
I think they nicked that coin because of the thick and hazy perimeter. Awesome coin for the registry, don't blame ya one bit.
So, so vague Yet I like it. Let's not forget, the environment you live in may or may not be the place it ends up, environments play a bigger roll,...
I bet I could make it look like any color of the rainbow. Fact is though, you have an altered coin.
That wasn't an easy MM to identify, What was hard to find was the common denominators. Your detailed photos of the die Scraches on the obv. And...
So what you are saying is that Philly kept the best batches of planchets and sent the rest to Denver? I don't doubt that.
It looks like 015 to me, Die scratches on the neck. MM placement also looks correct.
You actually spent the time to go over his math? I saw all the coins on the scale and said there were too many variables to come up with a correct...
No doubt for me. The Pastel toner has the best eye appeal. Early die state with nice frosty luster and a good strike.
The photo below shows copper in the recesses of the reeding. It's a plated quarter. [IMG]
It has a beveled rim. Not a proof.
A change in pressure, is going to expand any air pockets or gaseous pockets. We still see cents with gas bubbles every once in a while, but not...
Is that because it also shows some slight Planchet roughness? And it is hard to distinguish between the two?
The rivet like Ferrils, I thought went well with the feeder finger looking strip. I would think that those type of attachments would be secured by...
I have been looking for days, this is my only one. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I am disappointed in myself. That coin just got a bath with the green on the rev.
Your 88 Philly sure shows how PL the die really were, For Denver I think the elevation change has a lot to do with it. I would imagine the mint...
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