I'm not doubting you have a 1966 cent that has been waffled, I'm saying it was not done at the mint in 1966 (because they didn't have the...
After reading the Coin World article I would say a better description would be struck on questionable planchets, not experimental planchets....
Yes they are softer before the hubbing process. The hubbing work hardens them and they are the re-annealed to soften them again. (For steel alloy...
76, may be PSD I'm not sure. 77 off-center strike, possibly chainstrike, possibly on clipped planchet in that area 78 off-center uniface strike on...
Yes, there is no mintage limit on this set. They just had 190,000 sets on hand before they went on sale. At the moment the S mint is shut down,...
Another way to tell that it is not a strike through error is to look at the depression, the W of We is still present, a bit stretched and...
Minimum tolerance weight is 2.98 grams so your coin is just .01 grams light. To be significant it needs to be about .4 grams light.
I believe he is talking about the guy selling that never ending supply of coins "discovered in an old safe in a 200 year old shop".
Just got here, Marshall beat me to them.
Decisions. The Treasury Department is in Washington DC and the head of the Department is the Secretary of the Treasury. The Bureau of the Mint...
My thoughts are that you should start your own thread.
Enough people start thinking that way and eventually you will find it hard to loctes the items on the secondary market, and the prices will be higher.
I'm exactly the opposite. I think the second set of images make the coin look very nice. The first set makes it look like it has some nice PL...
The key is the leather. It conforms to the surface of the coin so the pressure is applied to all points equally. The letters do "stretch" but so...
Yep, waffled 37 years before the mint got the machine to do it.
Yes, but the die blank comes to a point. As the hub is squeezed against it and starts pressing in the design the pressure kind of wants to make...
I tend to do it the other way round. If you have obvious die cracks it makes narrowing down the possibilities much faster, and then use the...
Two comments, or additional facts. The combination of the moon landing with Eisenhower on the dollar was additionally pertinent, because NASA was...
First strike? PCGS didn't start doing First Strike designations until five years AFTER these things came out/
I could see not calling it a "Cheerios" dollar but they still should have listed it as the "prototype rev". I can't even see the feet.
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