Even with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the military accounts for only about a quarter of total spending. Go back to the drawing boards on...
With some planchets the alloy mixture was not perfect, and you can get a streaky or grainy pattern in the toning over time. Because of the look...
That's my opinion too. Very common since they went to the copper-plated zinc cents in 1982.
Aside from the fact that the various doubled dies from 1960 and 1980 do not exist in equal numbers, the original disagreement was centered around...
Extensive damage? Where?
That makes sense now. When I saw 2006 P listed I assumed this meant it had the "P" on the coin and that the 2006 sans P meant that it did not...
I believe that in 2002 the mint started producing cents that were 94% steel, thus they would naturally stick to a magnet. 2006 cents with no P...
You're simultaneously mixing the odds of landing on one number vs. another with the odds of landing on green vs. any other color. The odds of...
I don't think anyone would argue against the truism that coins produced by one particular die are just as plentiful as those produced by another...
I noticed that the post-mark was in December of '94 and he claims it was written about in the Fall '94 issue of Coin World. Did they see into the...
Good point. They are not mutually exclusive. Throw in some die-deterioration doubling as well, and you really start to get paranoid about what...
I'm glad you posted that portion of the letter regarding the number of strikes a normal die makes as I had inquired about this before. I do...
These guys do nothing but sell self-slabbed pocket change day in and day out.
MD, or mechanical doubling, can and does happen to mint marks of all years. True hub doubling would not effect a mint mark prior to 1990 because...
I think you might be thinking of doubled dies prior to 1990. Since the MM was punched onto the existing die by hand, any hub doubling on the die...
There is a disconnect somewhere and I'm just not following you. Even if they do produce for the normal cycle, a working die still only produces a...
The links I posted earlier in the thread both show excellent examples of both.
Maybe I'm just missing something, but I'm still not getting it. Let's take the 1980 for example. There were over 7 billion of them produced....
Now what would really be great is if you ripped off some counterfeit coin sellers with a counterfeit Rolex!
This is an interesting one because we are talking about our currency. I know the policies in place regarding politics, but there is just no way...
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