BTW, I know you guys are right. If you take the rim down on the die the opposite should happen on coins. It just drives me freaking nuts when...
Thanks Doug. I understand about coins and dies working opposite to each other but I just can't visualize it with rims. I'm just going to have...
The cud would be at junction of the die surface and the rim. So cutting it down lowers the relief which makes the rims higher? Please say yes....
"I'm from the machine shop. I'm here to help."
I can easily see the mint "helping" the die by shaving down a rim cud. Then they'd open the gap between the die and the collar making a small...
Many Lincoln cents from the 50's came from failing dies: cracked skulls, spiked heads, BIEs etc. I've never heard of a cud area being...
R.I.P. Arnie :(
Miss Liberty refreshes by filling the bowl with tyrants. Take lots of fiber now.
There is a bit of irony here --Liberty, fantasy? There's nothing wrong with your idea. I'd like to see Miss Liberty represented as Dagny...
But I want to see if somone strikes a condor token with a steampunk computer on it.
Can we Steampunk this? I'd like to a land a zepplin in London around 1750 and drop off a steam powered computer. That ought to mess things up...
How much would a king or queen from the 1500's pay for a world map? Of course the Washington Beltway would have to be clearly marked "Here...
If I went back far enough I'd be rich if I took a 100lbs of nails with me.
Buddy Epson owned trophy coins. Edwin P. Newman owned all five 1913 Liberty head nickels. Although I think he had a partner with that. John J....
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The bop in the bop-shoo bop?
The problem with researching prices is grading itself. Grading standards, interpretations, etc have always been changing. What collectors like...
If the idea is to hold it for 10 to 20 years the VF has a better chance of of enduring. The MS63 might not make 20 months. All things are not...
Maybe Thoreau is right: "Men have become the tool of their tools." A.few years ago a national sent me a PF69 Massachusetts quarter (NGC) that I...
If you heat seal your flips and your coins are small you can heat seal them in 1/2 of a flip trim it and heat seal it into a full flip. You...
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