After the commems were made in .999, and the regular silver proof sets were made .999, did anyone really think the limited edition sets would not...
Have you run into that article that was published on April 1st last year? (I think it was last year, might have been this year.)
So what does it actually weigh?
In that holder, it is already a raw coin.
The blue reminds me of the blue that MS70 sometimes turns copper coins.
Who cares what it grades. If you like it at the price they want great, if not pass.
Because if it takes two days to "cut" a die, and you need 10,000 dies a year..... And with the "snakeskin"all over you end up with coins that...
The "Evidence" bags make people think they must be something special. You can buy the bags for $39 per hundred bags.
If those came out of a government holder it would have been a regular mint set so nothing special.
They make pages that hold 2 1/2 X 2 1/2 flips.
They say 50 S mint, but those 50 could be from the 40's and 50's so make that 475 from the 40's and 50's
Genuine, dies are fairly worn but nothing wrong with the denticals.
It is a weaving loom, and it is a Norwich token, and it is from the period AFTER the Conder tokens, the 1800 - 1817 period
Yes but many of the doubled die sites show coins and talk about "extra thickness" especially on hte recent single squeeze doubled dies. The...
They probably could if you didn't mind taking a couple days to make each die and then having surfaces with the texture of the "snakeskin" cameo...
Looks like Mechanical Doubling to me, definitely not a DDO.
And you are still hijacking someone else's thread, and a thread that started 8 years ago.
"Strong extra thickness on IN GOD WE TRUST, mintmark, QUARTER DOLLAR, and AMERICA, " Really? Where? If there is any extra thickness there it is...
Smaller Y is the result of polishing of the die, you can see all the raised polish lines in the field nearby. As the field in ground down the...
That raised ridge is formed by a deteriorating/worn die. It is not an error. It is very common on zinc cents but does appear on other coins as...
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