The coin doesn't get hot but, I believe, the surface does from pressure and friction. The water would be hot enough to vaporize when the dies...
This is about what I'm thinking too. But I'd compare it more to a tire that is hydroplaning. This occurs when a thin layer of water exists...
No. They're all the same "type".
The proof set is the three pc 40% set. There's only one. The red pack is the 40% 3 pc set of mint set quality. Don't quote me on this but the...
The article was a little more heavily edited than I'd have liked but for the main part the changes made it more readable to more people....
Try to look at lots of raw coins so you know what "typical" is. Keep your eyes open for cheap slabs. Some of the coins in these are just...
it's "Collectible Ike Varieties".
Come to think of it I don't know if it survived in the newer editions or not but in the original it's ch #22.
If you can find them I'd strongly suggest 'out of the money" slabs. People submit coins for high grades and some times they come back low grade....
Sometimes they let the little guy contribute. ;)
I should have made it clear that the white stripe is on the plastic sleeve. On the regular strikes there is a white stripe and on the high speed...
I love it but then I'm prejudiced since I wrote one chapter. ;)
Probably some dies were reused to strike the coins on high speed presses but I don't know. The means of mounting them is probably the same and...
You might want to add the '76-S 40% BU from high speed presses. This is an interesting coin that had a huge mintage but the vast majority were...
It won't be too unusual to see the easy dates as cheap as $1.50 but these are disappearing and usually nice coins will be $2 for easy ones up to...
This is essentially true. Scratches tend to be shiny. Planchet flaws show up most in weakly struck areas such as around the periphery and the...
I think I know what's happening but I don't have a lot of experience here so you'll want to wait for more suggestions. A long soak in 91%...
The availability of nice choice BU Ikes is plummeting. It's not that they are scarce but at these low prices the demand is beginning to outstrip...
It's a weak strike caused by the obverse die not being parallel to the planchet. This is very common with the high speed presses but this one is...
The old memorials are all common in BU except the '60 sm dt. A lot of the '70 and later coins have premiums in BU with the most expensive regular...
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