Enough people start thinking that way and eventually you will find it hard to loctes the items on the secondary market, and the prices will be higher.
I'm exactly the opposite. I think the second set of images make the coin look very nice. The first set makes it look like it has some nice PL...
The key is the leather. It conforms to the surface of the coin so the pressure is applied to all points equally. The letters do "stretch" but so...
Yep, waffled 37 years before the mint got the machine to do it.
Yes, but the die blank comes to a point. As the hub is squeezed against it and starts pressing in the design the pressure kind of wants to make...
I tend to do it the other way round. If you have obvious die cracks it makes narrowing down the possibilities much faster, and then use the...
Two comments, or additional facts. The combination of the moon landing with Eisenhower on the dollar was additionally pertinent, because NASA was...
First strike? PCGS didn't start doing First Strike designations until five years AFTER these things came out/
I could see not calling it a "Cheerios" dollar but they still should have listed it as the "prototype rev". I can't even see the feet.
And that is the high point of the design. That's why the proper description of the coins is not incuse design, it is "sunken relief". I always...
Yes N-7 and N-8 are different die stages of the same die pair with8 being the early stage and 7 is the later stage.
But PLEASE select them to be full size and NOT thumbnail images!
Take your copy of Wright, open to any of the images showing the coin and describing the dies. See that big number between the obv and rev images,...
Actually on the Indian quarter and half eagle the high points of the design are also still the highest points, same level as the fields.
They are older fakes, easily spotted. Unfortunately they do a much better job on them now.
And you would find them!
Because you don't want to miss being there the day the miracle happens and someone actually finds one.
The coin looks to be plated with a silvery metal. He says when dropped it doesn't have that sound we all know. I believe he is saying it doesn't...
I'm sure the cent is real, but it couldn't have been "waffled"at the mint at the time of issue because the mint didn't have the machine, and...
More comments. What happened to the flying eagle? From what I have seen it pretty much came down to disagreements over the birds anatomy, and...
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