A compound microscope is a great tool for coins, just hard to get good pics without a built- in camera. I can see the effort you made and you got...
Latest price I could find for silver is $14.72 per oz. At .1929 oz, there is roughly $2.83 of silver in that bottle cap...Spark
If you haven't already done so, go to doubleddie.com, John Wexler's website, and read the section about "How dies are made". It will help you...
No, it looks like a die crack traveling from the U/UNITED through the wing and down through the eagles head. A rather striking crack, to me, but...
2 of my fondest memories, in May 2005...hiking to the waterfall in El Yunque with my son and canoeing at night in the bioluminescence bay...Nice...
Agree damage or environmental damage to all and dime is MAD. Look, the last coin is over 75 years old and environmentally damaged; zinc-plated...
You might find some ddr in the rolls, philly cents, at least 3 different reverse doubling of the hands/fingers of the "Early Childhood" cent,...
Value is relative. For many, anything valued over face value qualifies as "valuable". This is a way too common die flaw sensationalized by Noob...
So at 11:11am on Nov. 11 you are standing in the Mojave Desert outside Barstow, CA, when a Western Union motorcycle delivery man hands you a...
Answering your poll...it is doubling, just not the valuable kind. MD is the concensus, at first I thought DDD, until I saw the mint mark...Spark
For this coin...what lamination value would it have if not negated by the huge gouge in the head? $1.00 insread of .03? My view is that the gouge...
The obverse wear is vg8, the reverse wear maybe a bit better at f12. NGC lists this date at .18 and .25, respectively, for a normal, undamaged,...
dlp 21...your pics in post #7 clinched it...agree with Rick...am able to see the thickness in the attributes' details...Spark. btw, nice find.
Just finished perusing the entire thread and feel vindicated. I saw the first pic, knew it was a large date, end of thread...Spark
Large date. Sorry, never got to the rest of the thread...Spark
Just curious as to a ballpark value for this...obviously worth slabbing so I'm guessing maybe $75?... Spark
Also, with over 50 VAM varieties for this date alone, VAM World 2.0 appears to be more comprehensive than the VAM Encyclopedia by Mssrs. Van Allen...
Agree with SilverDollar2017...MAD. Additionally, there is substantial wearing of both sides and the bent part already mentioned. The wear and...
...and if it doesn't have zinc rot yet, it will...unless sealed in a capsule to eliminate any further exposure to air. I also agree the...
Welcome to CoinTalk, I look forward to seeing some interesting posts from you. To help you advance in your studies about doubling, if you haven't...
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