I'd love to say more about this seller, but it would mostly be words that aren't allowed on CoinTalk. :punch:
To someone who isn't looking really closely, I imagine these punches would change the coin's naked-eye appearance from "typical weakly-struck hair...
I'm still unable to see that "identical shape" from this photo, even after having been told what to look for. :(
I'll be watching with interest to see what the "strictest sense" of "tooling" is, then. I don't see this as a chemical alteration, but a physical...
Yeah, gotta get this one onto the CircCam thread!
The civil upheaval in those decades, not to mention the Cold War, certainly didn't seem like a cakewalk at the time. I'm still not quite sure how...
I'm kinda expecting (and certainly hoping) not to see this proven right OR wrong. If we made it through the 1960s and 1970s, we can make it...
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Anto-nini-what?
In a sustained vacuum, the equilibrium would shift toward CuO, I'd guess, with water offgassing. But, as @BadThad said, you can't keep one.
Now you've got me wondering whether I could trick one of those "souvenir cent squashers" into pressing wire into a coin...
Woohoo! Nothing like being in the right place at the right time! I'd have to go back and ask whether the same person dumped any rolls of other...
I can imagine an increasingly loose die producing a "progression" of strike doubling until they fixed it. Maybe. I'd still like to see a full...
Hey, I picked one who completely shares my own opinions on finance. I used to be a pretty smart guy, sometimes. ;)
"No, Mr. Corgi, I expect you to..." oops, sorry, wrong movie. I kinda hope nobody will pay too much attention to my post, given that I don't...
That's what I thought, but only because I've seen a very similar effect on a (well-circulated) Franklin half. On that coin, the flaw was deep...
A lot of the dealers at my local/regional show take credit, but either explicitly add a surcharge (usually 3%), or are less inclined to negotiate....
Yeah, we have to remember the difference between "struck on a dime planchet" and "stuck on a planchet punched from dime stock". In the first case,...
It certainly seems that way -- and yet: I spent my teenage years in the 1970s and my college years (most of them) in the 1980s. We saw...
Not for long, I'll bet. Unless they're reducing the quality or amount of material.
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