The process for having an RPM attributed at CONECA is to post some initial images at the Die Variety Forum, and if the response there is positive,...
Very nice. It's tough finding intermediate die stages for die breaks, chips, cuds, etc. I try finding them in roll searches. I've photographed a...
I believe that most of the coinage, at least in the early days of the mints, was done to order. A customer would come in with high grade ore /...
I don't think so. I think the reason folks ask for the whole coin is just to be contrary. If the poster shows the full coin, then people say that...
Looks like a satin finish proof.
The way to be sure about machine doubling versus die doubling is to determine whether the devices are larger (die doubling) than they should be,...
I didn't know the Hawaiian coins were minted in SF, thanks for letting us know this tidbit. Shame the series does not have the S mintmark like the...
My only experience with TPGs was with ANACS. I sent 10 variety coins in, and they came back with pretty much the grades I expected. Problem was...
I just finished the search on the 50 rolls. It was quite a mix! I found 8 rolls of "interesting" coins...DDOs, various RPMs, various BIEs,...
Yes, agree on the 1-2% overall. I just receive an auction I won of 50 rolls of 1955-S. Not OBW, but many of the rolls obviously were taken from...
For some of us who like toned coins, paper rolls can actually be our friends. Some of the very best toned coins I have found came directly from...
I've had very poor luck at looking at the outside of an OBW roll and predicting the quality of the coins inside. End coins vary from mint/as...
Some of the best rolls I have found, from condition perspective, were foil-wrapped (foil touching coins). I've even bought a few rolls wrapped...
I have made my first cellphone copy stand. It is based on my System-400 stand, with phone clamp, and column offset to put the phone camera lens...
This. You certainly don't want the coins to come in direct contact with cardboard of any kind (eg albums), but if they are in 2x2's they are...
That is actually the same photo, just rendered in 3D.
I was looking through a BU roll of 57-D Cents and found this interesting (though minor) RPM. It is a D/D/D "rotated" variety. The image below...
VEDS is "Very Early Die State". This is essentially a new die, not showing much if any wear. As the die wears it progresses to EDS "Early Die...
I was looking through some 1954-S BU Rolls and found this VEDS example. I noticed the VEDS quality of the coin before I saw that it was an RPM...
It does look like it might be an RPM, and if so would be a strong one and very worthy of getting listed. There are not that many RPMs in the USPI...
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