@Eric the Red - Did you see my PS?
First of all, weren't you the one who gave Aiden those rolls? Second, if so, it's your fault, and you have to fix breakfast every day until the...
The 1765 (#3) is really nice! #8 looks like the nose may have been tooled.
Ditto on the '54S! The '52 has a bad case of leprosy.
Selling those bank rolls on FleaBay will only end up getting you bad karma. Most people can go to the bank themselves, but COVID is keeping some...
I may be wrong, but these do not look like oriental chop marks. It may be that someone made those to pass the coin off as real to get more money...
Your comments in the second link make sense, but why isn't there support of this from other specialists? Doug's Quote "Pick up almost any book on...
What's wrong with having more than one "Box of 20"? Do one Brit, one US and one for any other country that wets your whistle.
It looks to me like it was soaking in a urinal.
FWIW, for many, many years, I have had coins in cardboard 2x2's, Saflips, airtites, coin tubes and even Mint bags. IMHO, if you avoid plastics...
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Isn't that like running your thoroughbred in the Kentucky Derby without a saddle?:woot:
These striations can be found on MS coins, too! Like cracks and chips, they do not affect the grade.
You may be right. I wonder if Doug @GDJMSP can give us a link to that information.
You're quite welcome!:)
Coin metal flows outward toward the rim. As it does, it scrapes against the die steel causing the parallel striations.
It looks like die deterioration to me. You can also see how the letters have been affected by doubling from die deterioration (DDD).
Definition: Die scrapes are a form of die damage that is caused by the feeder finger scraping across the anvil die. Die scrapes appear on a coin...
I could be wrong, but I always thought that feeder finger damage affected the die and was then imparted to the planchet during striking.
And, a belated happy birthday to you!
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