At least he got Full Bands on the Merc. :)
OK, the coin: The full-face images make Mike's explanation of a double strike much easier to envision - the rotation (where visible) is consistent...
Sure, like this: [ATTACH] The blurred features are still above the field level. Grease won't transmit striking features; it's a liquid, and if...
Yeah, I've always been self-destructive by nature. :) If a strikethrough - I think it's too deep for a detached lamination to be still showing...
You kind of lucked out here. 1880-S and 1881-S are known to Morgan aficionados to be generally the best-struck - the San Francisco Mint was...
I'm surprised he hasn't come up with one yet; his attribution skills are inarguable. There you go, Dave. You know you've "made it" on the...
Appreciate the clarification; I use social media so little - and Facebook shared logins not at all - that I wouldn't know. My fist impression,...
Feed finger artifacts will be vertically-oriented (when the reverse is viewed right-side up) and located usually at the F in OF and adjacent...
I could not imagine linking Facebook activity with numismatics. That's like advertising yourself as a burglary target.
There are folks doing 1921's. My admiration for them knows no bounds.
I went through those rules carefully when I got the notification. The new restrictions are basically just for volume sellers who want to retain...
Keep that website bookmarked. There's no better reference for coin errors, and as you post coins here you're gong to be linked to it quite often. :)
Living within walking distance of the Philadelphia Mint, I doubt I'll see Denvers very soon. :)
Sure you could. :) 1881-S is pretty much the cheapest Morgan in MS66 - almost 18% of all PCGS MS66's are 1881-S. One in MS66 is about the price...
OK, you're part of history now. :) There are a *bunch* of 1879-P's with similar doubling on the 9. I wonder how many of that year's VAMs could be...
99% probability it's postmint; I'm just trying to avoid going off like a grenade for once. :) The detail images more clearly show where metal...
I'd keep the first one for the Dansco, since the second is going to be so hard to replicate and it'd be an outlier. Me, I'd have snagged the...
Here is where you have to sit down and work through the strike process in your head, what the press and the die are doing during the milliseconds...
That's a hit from the toughest asparagus I've ever seen. Right on the bridge of the nose is the best evidence of metal displacement from a...
Only if you're someone who uses those terms that way. These are among the most ill-defined words in numismatics. :) If you like the coin, it's...
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