Um, hub doubling is the "good" doubling....
DigiWeigh seems popular; I use one too. $15-20 on Ebay should get you one. Look for one which resolves 0.01g. This is a crazy coin. The weak part...
Oh, I understand tapered planchets; it's just that a very small clip looks similar, the rim is there but it looks tapered from the side. The...
The 1918/7-D is pretty clear into lower grades; the shapes of the openings inside the 8 should be enough for attribution. These images aren't...
The "tapered" area seems kind of small; might a very minor clip do that?
Because the only "education" gleaned would be how to spend money you don't need to.
Looks like rather a nice piece of detective work on your part. :)
That's a case where sometimes you're stuck with needing known die pair pickups that can conclusively identify it as a Proof rather than a Business...
This is another one where, meaning no offense, it would require truly professional-level imagery to make good guesses at the grade. There's one...
The whole dang press must have jumped off the ground.
Mine's one of these; it's ground flat.
XRF analysis would nail the planchet composition instantly. I would much prefer to have whatever these were before the cancelling. :)
I'm an off-center strike, myself. :)
It happened really_slowly; the color progression is very advanced, yet the band of toning rather narrow. Seems to me like it might have sat...
Images were shot with an inexpensive, high-megapixel point-and-shoot, I think. I can see the overdone in-camera sharpening in some of them. My gut...
The chip on the nose is a killer pickup. :) Usmc60, Morgan Dollars are categorized by varieties called VAMs. It's an ongoing attempt to identify...
I have a cancelled Nickel die, sold as a set by the Mint.
Not really; Bust Halves have little variance in relief on the obverse, and after a certain level of wear pretty much everything disappears at...
You and fifty hozillion other Merc folks. :P
I'm sorry, man, as hard as you try to be a curmudgeon, you never quite manage to not be likable. Hate to break it to you.
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