Die Deterioration Doubling, Die errosion doubling, both mean the same thing.
Speedy, Do you need that bodybag? If not may I have it? I don't appear to have that type listed yet. I have great difficulty getting...
The legislation specifies that no living President of former President may be portrayed on the dollar coin, but I don't recall any such language...
Right next to the other 2/3rds that that no one wants.
Oh yes, it is a technical Unc, it is just in the hard pack case that says Carson City Silver Dollar but not Uncirculated Carson City Silver...
Worn die showing erroded die doubling.
When you are grading a US cent the PCGS software expects it to be copper and assigns a color designation. If the coin is MS and the grader...
Thanks, this was news to me. They have been slabbing ballcards for around 20 years now.
It does look better. (Some people already have them.)
The mintmarks were punched into the dies at the Philadlphia mint before they were shipped out.
The legislation has been passed in the House five times and failed in the Senate four times. The legislation is currently in the Senate (AGAIN)...
Looks like te die was chipping along the back of the boat.
When you consider how much silver is still in circulation, you would expect better than 99.9% of all the rolls to not have any silver in them. So...
I have heard rumors of a GSA hard-pack holder with a blue insert but I have never seen one. (Supposedly it had a peace dollar in it.) If you do...
Don't kid yourself. Missing clad layers are rarer than cuds, but even cuds are hard to come by. They watch the dies pretty closely and they are...
I'm not positive whatyou mean by binary. To me binary would mean consisting of only 1's and 0's.
I can think of one, but it is so far fetched it is hardly believable. It would require a dollar and a quarter planchet to enter the coining...
Not correct. They are the first US coin, but not the first .9999 fine gold coin. Don't trust the dimension shown earlier in the thread. Those...
Also vinegar is a mild acid. So the cleaning etches the surface and makes it more suseptible to faster tarnishing. If it isn't completely...
I'm not sure why it is, but every forum I see that uses that particular forum software is always quickly overrun by the porn spammers. Either it...
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