The reason I didn't respond in this thread is because I knew the answer before Thad ever posted this and I didn't want to screw up his experiment...
Why ? You can get MS66 coins in change at the grocery store. I used to get MS Morgans and circulated Morgans in the same roll. What I'm trying to...
Extremely unlikely. For one zinc is much, much softer than die steel. That's why it is used to polish it.
It's not that they are supposed to be weakly struck - they have to be weakly struck. That's just physics. if a certain amount of metal is...
No, they couldn't. There is no corner, it is a round, flat zinc plate. And if they even touched the die to the edge of that plate for even a half...
The Fed still doesn't roll coins. Coins are only rolled by private entities. Even those sold by the US Mint are rolled by a private entity.
Then me why that Jeff has not a single mark on its cheek when the entire planchet is covered with planchet marks. No Mike - I aint buyin it.
So you're telling me that those off center strikes are well struck because the dies are not aligned ? Sorry pal - I aint buyin that. There is no...
Yeah there is, probably a die chip or die erosion. As for this one - it's just a novelty struck on a genuine coin after it left the the US...
Now as you can see, some of those planchets had some really heavy & deep marks on them too. But you get to see part of the coin at the same time....
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Then it struck me that since those who say the marks are left over planchet marks due to a weak strike, perhaps one of the best ways to find out...
Now as you can see, some of those have some pretty heavy and deep marks on them. Especially that Sacky planchet. But have you ever seen a Sacky...
For a long time there have been many discussions ob various subject where it comes up that marks on a coin, usually a high grade coin, are...
No, you misunderstood me. Yes, silver dollars always left the mint in canvas bags of 1000 coins each. But I didn't say that paper coin...
But they are all polished with the same thing - every time. It's a large zinc plate spinning very fast just like the wheel on a bench grinder.
Unless the Mint has reason to believe that any error, deliberate or otherwise, was not released in the normal way then it is perfectly legal to...
Yup, that's exactly the one I described. And your coin aint it.
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