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That's two separate events, and if the first one occurs, the probability of the second rises dramatically.
Can't really tell anything from the images other than it is NOT the major DDO for this date and mint.
Yes I believe that is exactly what he was saying, a lintmark impressed into the die during the hubbing process, which is why it is a variety....
Not a bad idea. It serves two purposes. It provides you woth a reference knowledge base, and it keeps anyone that finds it after you spend it...
Where this fabrication belongs is in the trash. Or in a fly by night slab as a novelty item..
I'm not aware of any rare variety of buffalo nickel where there is doubling or a cud under the chin. There are examples with strong die...
Possibly because they all got "on the list" back before the 1960's and before it became known what was in the Treasury holdings. For example...
If it is playing in your head in his voice then YOU'VE been watching too much. :) They changed the term, back when the first started, pre-2007,...
I'm not doubting you have a 1966 cent that has been waffled, I'm saying it was not done at the mint in 1966 (because they didn't have the...
After reading the Coin World article I would say a better description would be struck on questionable planchets, not experimental planchets....
Yes they are softer before the hubbing process. The hubbing work hardens them and they are the re-annealed to soften them again. (For steel alloy...
76, may be PSD I'm not sure. 77 off-center strike, possibly chainstrike, possibly on clipped planchet in that area 78 off-center uniface strike on...
Yes, there is no mintage limit on this set. They just had 190,000 sets on hand before they went on sale. At the moment the S mint is shut down,...
Another way to tell that it is not a strike through error is to look at the depression, the W of We is still present, a bit stretched and...
Minimum tolerance weight is 2.98 grams so your coin is just .01 grams light. To be significant it needs to be about .4 grams light.
I believe he is talking about the guy selling that never ending supply of coins "discovered in an old safe in a 200 year old shop".
Just got here, Marshall beat me to them.
Decisions. The Treasury Department is in Washington DC and the head of the Department is the Secretary of the Treasury. The Bureau of the Mint...
My thoughts are that you should start your own thread.
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