A Quality Management guru used to say..."By what method?" In short, his view was that the results might be achieved by various methods and that...
Fun find...I agree with our fellow enthusiasts. It is a DDR. As noted, this is a common area to find this class of doubling. I have a number...
Michele - 1988 presents an opportunity. Have a look at this: Wexler's Coins and Die Varieties (doubleddie.com)
I think we broaden our views of the hobby. No wrong way to view it...just creative ways that may suit you and nobody else. And that is actually...
It is interesting that folks will pay what they will for reasons unknown. I've thrown it out here a couple times, but one fellow enthusiast built...
Interesting, yes. Authentic? I’m in the No camp. Reasons above are consistent with my own. The shear/break line does not appear correctly to me...
Old school manual wrapping.
Witness mark from the reverse die. Also a bit of a heavy engraving tool touch up. Pretty normal stuff.
I find Incomplete Curved Clip as a bad descriptor of what actually occurred. Incomplete Punch is a better descriptor.
Indeed some are funny. A few years back I used to grab breakfast on Wednesday for a couple of us early to work. A fellow associate saw that I...
This will always be the case. The shear numbers of modern mintage figures continue to saturate the field making anything decades old an even...
It disappoints me to see threads devolve like this. My observation is that some members provide curt responses that are easily interpreted as...
Terrific find!
@masterswimmer must have cloudy eyes after doing some laps!! ;-) That's a nice delam...like half of a split planchet. Nice error...
Maybe less time than you think. Really depends on the conditions around the event. Coins stacked in a drink holder in a hot car accelerate the...
A couple more items from the small hoard of pocket change. [ATTACH]
Gathered in change this morning - fun to catch one on the go. [ATTACH]
As tools wear, there is some level of transfer to the planchet. Trace amounts but when oils used in manufacturing run low/out, more transfer. I...
Big kids like finding them too!!
It mainly relied on dumps in my experience. Hang in there.
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