Planchets were dried in sawdust, and sawdust strike-thrus plague 83-O, 84-O, and 85-O. This one seems pretty extreme. OP coin is indeed VAM 25....
Correct, but you have the terms reversed. Precision refers to the number of digits a scale can give you consistently. If I have a scale that can...
I think it's real, but rather banged up. The reverse looks like VAM 3 (probably VAM 3A) -- filled G in God with a gloppy mint mark. The funny...
Pretty brutally chopped coin, but it does have a coolness factor to it. To answer your question, however, you are wrong to think that they...
I think they switched to .999 in 2019.
Maybe a little greenish halo around Lincoln's head, but I don't see any other colors on it, either before or after trying to fix the white balance.
I imagine the 1970 will look like this [ATTACH]
Not sure what the holders are made of or how quickly the inserts will cause toning, but the silver proof sets are now .999 silver rather than...
This. Look into the rules for keeping yourself protected using PayPal. You'll need a signature confirmation over a certain value. The buyer has...
If you're only keeping one, that's a good one to keep.
Ahh... Rsomeplace Coin Club. I was thinking rec.collecting.coins for a moment (#ThrowbackThursday). Nice haul!
For me, the photo on the gray background gives me a better feel for the edge of the coin. It also makes the cataloger's job of cropping the...
Yours is about 4 grams too heavy, then. I imagine that Kosoff's piece was barely identifiable, but for the provenance. Maybe I misread the...
Here's the auction I think you're referring to -- the Abe Kosoff collection. I didn't see a lead J-1621 in that sale, but there were some...
It doesn't take much of a cleaning to get a coin into a details holder. On the 78 8TF and 78 7TF, I'm going to guess that there's enough of a...
I think so, too. Looks like a counting wheel burn.
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83-CC is quite common in DMPL. Over 14% of the PCGS population of MS 83-CC grade PL or DMPL, with half of those DMPL. The percentages are almost...
OP coin is O/CC VAM 12
Those have been around long enough where the OP question could be rephrased as "Has OSV Verification Added Value to Mint Sets?" I don't think it...
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