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Hey Joe.....it's called a "doubled die". The should be a D at the end. :D Hub doubling only involves a single, working die....not two of them. LOL
Looks like Irish is finally starting to average out. LOL
You are referring to verdigris and this coin DEFINATELY has no verdigris on it.
That's a very nice looking IHC! CONGRATS! :)
That's a little better....you can see the area of weakness that's typical. The line must be all the way through to show complete separation across...
I can't find my diagram picture, but there are two primary areas where the steps typically show weakness and are incomplete. The first area is at...
You have to look through thousands and thousands to find the super gems. It's even tougher for me because I also demand full steps. Admittedly, I...
Yea, yea....LOL I wrote the book while I was laid off. These days I'm working my edited off. The time will eventually come to finish it up. :)
Read and learn - http://www.amazon.com/Coin-Chemistry-Including-Cleaning-Preservation/dp/0971392471
Lucky you! NICE SNAG!
Beautiful! It all has to do with the thickness of the silver sulfide layer. It doens't "flow", it just deposits at a different rate.
That pretty well sums it up! :D As for the coin....I LIKE IT! :thumb:
Normal, but damaged coin.
The thrill is in the hunt! I own a few slabbed coins, but I prefer raw.....in a way slabbed coins are cheating.:p
Actually, I'm not a big error/variety collector, I just have a few and mostly non-photographed....so don't get too excited. LOL
Very good observation! It's an odd anomoly and I don't know why it's there. In 1990 the mint produced new master hubs (both obverse and reverse)...
LOL! Most people aren't interested in the memorial cents. I'm always met with "they made billions". My response is: "yea, but 99% of those...
Here's part of the roll set and my 1982 SDC roll. Next to the 1970-S SD, this was the most difficult roll to obtain. I have a couple EOR toners,...
Tired of not having any pictures so I brought out my roll set. Here's a roll and an example of the average quality. I built all the rolls in the...
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