Cool coin! :thumb: Very distinctive notching on those letters...I should look closer at my LMCs.
I'm happy to report that BJ Neff, the expert on trail dies, inspected this coin and confirmed it as the earliest known example of a trail die--now...
Yep, the guy behind the Snow # system for IHCs. I guess he's pretty much the expert on IHC varieties. PM me if you need his contact info. :thumb:
If yours is the Snow-1, the particular "look" to the 7 might be due to die state (age of die) or possibly just lighting between photos. Don't take...
Huntsman, nice finds! :thumb: Having found a 1999-S close AM proof myself, I'll paraphrase something John Wexler told me about this die variety....
No worries--I was just trying to see if I could spot the MPD in the denticles. The Snow-1 has a stray digit punched below the 0. :smile
Jessash, I went through the Snow attribution guide for 1907, and based on the position of the RPD in the 907 and the overall position of the...
Yep, I think BJ Neff is the guy to quote here. I can't really say I understand it well enough to explain, since I mostly focus on 19C. rpds and...
Ardatirion, I really like the historical context of that "Vandalized" coin. :thumb:
Wow...what a nice person! :smile
Frank, Here are a few more details. I particularly like the spread in the date, which appears to be part of the hub--and not punched after...
You better bid these things up...or ya know, there could be problems. ;)
Nice find...Congrats! :thumb:
The features noted below (arrows) were found on an 1869 Uruguay 4c. BJ Neff has seen this photo and tentatively identified it as trails--but a...
:D Haha! Now that sounds like direct evidence. Thanks for that update-I'm glad to hear there's some progress.
If I might make an observation, that strikes me as a rather obvious, visible act. So I'll toss this out--was this guy working alone, or in tandem...
I'm not a specialist in UK coins, but I do study/collect overdates. If you post a closeup photo of the date, I'll be happy to give my opinion--for...
Thad, Thanks--and I did not mind the question as much as he could not provide a single point I could either prove or disprove. I have nothing to...
Well, OK--not to cast aspersions on Centsles, but on coins I collect like Australia predecimal (which has its own standards)--his grades are not...
Hmm...this scardinal guy on eBay is either another name for Centsles, or one of his associates. He handles a lot of NNC "slabs", which...
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