Questions, do they have records of the disposition of every other printing plate? Most of them? Any of them? If they don't have records of what...
Abrasion on a darkly toned coin.
I then rinse it with acetone to remove the distilled water. :)
There are three specialist books on the varieties of the two cent piece. The Kliman book was the first and the Flynn book is the most recent....
My guess is that somewhere on the coin you will find doubling for Machine Damage Doubling or MDD. Someone probably submitted it as some kind of a...
Nope, just discolored. 85 grains is 5.67 grams exactly what it is supposed to weigh. A missing clad layer would be closer to 4 grams.
Considering there would be two if not three layers of paper on the roll, I seriously doubt those marks would actually be from the reeding .
The beard down around the lower part of the jaw is the highest relief and there fore the deepest part of the die, but as it comes up to the ear...
I think it is both a lamination AND damage. the coin had a lamination but something has hit the coin to force that lamination back away from...
You notice the last sentence in the description on that site says GENERALLY the ones used in 1883 have reeded edges. And the site also repeats...
They are costly, which is annoying because they aren't that rare. I remember one time seeing a hoard of fifty of them in Larry Briggs case. For...
Five, Head of 36, head of 38, Silly Head, Booby head, and Petite head.
There's military there as well, one of the pairs of legs belongs to one of the National Guard soldiers.
If it was actually a hosiery Mill it may have been for use in a company store, or commissary.
The guys at PCGS have their fun as well. Back in the days when the SS Central America coins were first coming out they had a reception and as...
Sure they can hire more graders, all they have to do is lower their standards and hire less qualified people. It's like those people who say that...
Were there major shows that hey attended during that period? It used to be that they didn't count days they were at shows (Fridays) and often...
Yes die polishing.
No, Numismasters coinchat radio ended two years ago.
I'd happily pay $10 for it.
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