The surfaces on a Special Mint Strike should (usually) be smoother because more care was taken preparing the planchets. If they have fewer dings...
One way we might encourage beginners is to point out that while beat-up pocket change is almost never worth anything, you can get interesting...
The thread Animation and Coin Photography covers the technique for making these. I started out eager but ignorant, but received helpful...
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I only have a handful of Morgans, including this one I just got at the LCS. I liked this raw dollar at $45, so it became my only coin of any kind...
Took a lunchtime trip to the LCS. Chatted a bit, then picked this up for $20. Very pretty! Other than the proof that came in my birth year set,...
- -This just arrived. At a grade of 62, I figured it couldn't possibly be graded lower if I cracked it out. Since all my other proofs are raw, I...
$3.00 from eBay. Blinding in the light! [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
@Marshall this was a great suggestion! It took me a few days to dig out the digital microscope to see it, but this is the scratch / eyelash....
@Janine Gomez It seems that a picture is still missing that shows a natural example of this coin. I don’t show the edges in my photo below. As...
Another proof... Too bad about the obverse scratch, but fortunately I am not a perfectionist. The orange sherbet coloring on the back and the...
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Here’s another view of a proof. The mirror surfaces are quite different from the circulation strikes. [ATTACH]
@Paddy54, you started a thread "1929 S Buffalo Nickel" just about 3 years ago. You discussed a 1929-S DDO that was not listed in the references....
OK, so my last post (#2166) was, unknown to me, actually a rare 1929 Buffalo 5C DDO FS-101, of which PCGS has only graded 15 examples. And, it has...
I guess you would call this a repunched date, but it looks like re-engraved would be a better term for it. $29 [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I tried to get this ‘42 proof for $42.42, but I had to go up to 44.44. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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