You were told by Mike Diamond, the foremost error expert in the country (and perhaps the world) that your coin was damaged. Fact is, the same type...
Well, this obviously isn't the only doubled die to be found...there are thousands of different doubled dies already discovered, a good handful of...
Because it is a mistake that the mint made, and some people find that collectable. Error/variety collecting from circulation, in a way, is a...
Goes to show that if done properly, dipping can be a good way to restore a coin to its former glory. :D
The problem is, as mentioned in post 5, the single-squeeze hubbing process that the mint has used for about the last 15 years eliminated the...
Compare it to a normal coin and you'll see a drastic difference... Once the mint switched to single-squeeze hubbing, the number of doubled dies...
Jim Fines, a collector and member of the Lincoln Cent Resource, stunned us all this past week with the discovery of an extremely strong DDO!...
The cuts are PMD, the anomaly in the date is a die chip.
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Did you ever sign up for the ebay bucks program specifically? I don't think you can get the "$5 ebay bucks by listing X amount of items" email if...
That looks more like a crack in the plating as well. You can see if you continue along it's path to the upper right of the coin, it passes right...
Got it. Thanks. :D
Tell that to PCGS, they seemed to somehow grade a Silver Eagle struck on a sanding disk as MS64... [IMG]
So in relief? Now I'm confused... Incuse: sunken into the coin Relief: raised off of the coin
Sorry, doubling looks flattened to me...
Looks damaged to my eyes...
Agreed, there really isn't an accurate assessment of how many errors for a given date were made, because many errors can happen at any time during...
Split plating is just when the copper plating of the coin splits around the design. It only occurs on post-1982 cents, but it is still a very...
Looks more like a plating bubble to me than a die gouge, you can kind of see that the plating cracked along the same direction on the coin. But if...
Good luck on the submission, Bill! Finger's crossed for a clean grade!
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