Been gone for several days. The much better pictures he posted right after my last post (#56) definitely nail it down as just a flip over double...
Interesting, I've never heard of this. Notice the severe warping of the fields around the lettering etc. I suspect this die was seriously worked...
If you were to remove a die from the press you would get a "coin' struck on neither side. It IS possible to have a coin struck on one side only...
The mint receives ready to strike cent planchets, bullion planchets, and possibly dollar planchets. As far as I know they still do their own...
Probably not grease filled since if you put a glass on them you see that the digit is fully there. It is just insufficient frosting of the...
Definitely fake. Major clue, they are both from the same reverse die even though they date three years apart. Also notice on the fourth red...
I don't have one but I have seen them before. I've even seen one made from a chain cent.
Any markings on the edge? Typically precious metal rounds are marked somewhere on them with a weight and/or fineness..
It's the subject. Honoring the two hundredth birthday of a Frenchman who had no direct connection to the United States. I doubt if "huge...
Marshall, Any chance of getting larger images of those berries? I've known that the berry and stem was diagnostic but I've never been able to...
It all boils down to NGR, No Good Reason.
And of course once it was discovered the Mint pulled all the direct ship NA dollars so they could unwrap and search them to make sure that no more...
Unfortunately it doesn't, and I can't adjust it because I can't see the differences in the colors to adjust it.
It is a 1798, but look at the gap between the ends of the wreath compared to the S above it. There are only three varieties that even come close....
Why? You think no one collected colonials? And a lot of collectors in the US in the 1800's actually tended to collect ancients. US coins were...
You will also find French pieces and German States pieces fromn the 1800's made of billon. There are plenty of others. Technically the 40%...
Size of a half dollar but weighs a pound? Wonder what it's made of? Too light for Neutronium, too heavy for anything else known to science....
Mint spec for a new silver quarter 1873 - 1947 is 6.25 grams +/- .097 grams. For 1948 to 1964 the weight is the same but the tolerance loosens to...
Oh I understand why they do it, and it doesn't suprise me that they do. It's just that back when they started they were supposed to be neutral...
You're doing just fine. In that coin club there are at least three other collectors of paper and possibly as many as four that collect MPC's....
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