If you're not making mistakes, you're being spoon-fed. I prefer to wield my own fork, even at the cost of occasionally using it to eat crow. :)
Yeah, I see what you see. I suspect there's die chipping inside the 2, giving that appearance.
Honestly, Rachael, Error-Ref ought to be an open tab in your browser whenever you're researching a coin showing an anomaly. It's an amazing...
I tend to agree, but this is as extreme as I've ever seen it and therefore you gotta noodle potential other causes. I doubt letter details would...
The thing is, after the Pittman Act melt, mintage figures don't really correlate to survival rates.
That looks like something Meucci would do, which is yet more proof of your good taste. :)
By all means. Even if you end up being positive that it couldn't have happened at the Mint, what you learn will be of use for the rest of your...
These days, the Mint employs lasers to actually etch the devices of dies to achieve that frost. Back in the Classic days, it could have been done...
Honestly, Tommy, I'm still kinda feeling my way around being pacifist by nature in a contentious forum. I got your point without problem, which is...
My guess is the 'scope optics ought to be flat-field enough to show everything it can capture in focus. If not, it will be sharpest in the center...
A completed die has that finish all over. They're more matte than polished, and for the first certain number of strikes are capable of...
Wish I'd known you in those days. No better friend on Earth than a poolplayer who tends bar. :D For me it started during a Matchbox road...
Educate me. I don't know Pandas. How do you know they're fake?
Not too awful bad, and I say that as a photography snob who usually thumbs my nose to USB scopes. Nice sharpness levels. I have the impression...
The trouble with this as an error is, you have to explain how it happened. The D is a negative on the die, so no impact could make it look like...
Not enough detail to be sure, but that radius on the feature sure looks like a rim radius. If my theory is true, though, it's probably as much...
I looked at twenty or so random images of 1975 Cents via Google. Half of them had the 5 tilted. Pro tip, Sheila: I don't care if I already know...
They're ridiculous. You can quite easily shave using one as a mirror.
By the time Morgans were struck, the Mint had Morgan & Orr toggle presses. Some - not all - Proof dies went into Business Strike production after...
Ha! :D Old habits die hard, don't they?
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