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...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Superb-top-grade-1888-USA-quarter-dollar/152872746476?hash=item2397ecfdec:g:x7MAAOSwkV5aYiOA
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...
Sure, I'll PM you an answer. Edited . . . on second thought, after reading all of the above posts, a PM hardly seems necessary.
This claim seems pretty baseless to me. The rationale behind owning 90% coinage over bar silver is that it facilitates specie exchange in very...
Your coin is not genuine.
"When will silver be low again?" It will probably be low again the next time you decide to pass on it because you don't think it has yet dropped...
Here are some recent newps, mostly from FUN: A better date 1832 CBQ (PCGS XF45 CAC) . . . [ATTACH] [ATTACH] A deeply toned 1901-S Half Eagle...
Okay, I now fully understand your goal. Makes sense to me.
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