I see what you mean...it is worn more than I thought...Spark
Your 1914 wheat looks to be vg8, $1.75 listed at NGC. The ‘14-D is the scarce one, but you prove older coins still can be found from pocket...
...it’s okay to use tweezers, just not metal ones. Plastic ones will not put scratch marks on your coins. Also, wooden spudgers and toothpicks...
IMO...that cent looks close to AU50. NGC lists it at $135.00 ...it would easily sell for $100-125 at auction. Personally, if I owned it, I...
...whereas, based on the half-life of a cesium atom (the Naval Observatory Atomic Clock)...it’s close enough for govt. work, but with my luck it...
..it’s called “split plate doubling”...Spark @Kentucky ...sorry, man...I posted 3 microseconds after you...
...well,...they are vg8-vf20...all melt targets at this condition, hard to see any doubling with wear stages, obliterated, most likely...as of...
...let’s see a close-up of OF NO RET area. Is it scoring or raised metal?...Spark
...try going to lincolncentresource.com. They have a good explanation of the Close AM, what the initials look like, the distances, etc....Spark
From post #14, the ‘94-D...things to look for and your coin has: Flat hair under W/WE, MD at forehead and nose, worn beard at chin and flattening...
Not being negative, just factual: you responded to a 6 yo necrothread. New members often do that. How do I know? Because I did it too, when I...
No, there really isn’t something else either. The obverse has a nice strong strike but the reverse had die deterioration and a weaker...
@Scott White ...I was the sixth to agree to die deterioration... no sense repeating the verbiage, this is one way to do so...Spark
+6...Spark edited: it actually has a bit of both MD & DDD, which is also common...
Strike while the iron is hot. As long as you have done your own due diligence you won’t be seen as a pest...imo...Spark
This looks to be “extra steps”, and, you are right, this is seen on other date reverses. Wexler lists one ddo and one ddr for 1986-D...VV lists...
We are all here to learn. Correct grammar helps to explain your info and any questions you want answered. If you couldn’t care less, then be...
NO. It’s a normally worn dime...not an error of any kind...imo...Spark
In the networking world, they employ “disaster recovery” techniques across the servers, disk striping, which shares data across multiple server...
@Chris N ...be patient...it takes a while for the servers to see all the new data, you should be able to post in a day or so, if not, contact a...
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