My opinion only Purchasing error. Actually what I think this is is a coin that missed the cleaning step after the planchets were annealed...
Can't say anything about the WE but the "rays" are the result of die wear. That is what the mint calls "starburst". It is caused by the outward...
Doubledie, I will take your post then as permission to use information from your site, properly creditied, in my book. I will try and get...
Yes they do havea collector following. Some are very crude and low value while others are very well done and have high values. With these it the...
The coin is real and bottle with the coin in it was worth a LOT more than the coins is. I have that book and have read it as well. I also...
That would depend on whether or not Lane wanted the news out. Personally I think it's great. I'm glad to see slabs and their history getting...
I'm impressed by the Coinauctions site, 88 companies. That's 6 more than I listed 5 years ago. I'm past the 150 company level. Still he does...
You have my comments on the Coin Community forum.
The Omega counterfeits were identified by ANACS in the mid 1970's long before there were TPGs. The Secret Service had nothing to do with it. And...
And I think that in about three years everyone will be hyping the National Parks quarters, all the new collectors will be chasing those, and the...
You folks don't look at the edge of too many coins do you? This is a perfectly normal coin, just not well struck. When the planchet comes from...
There were three of these that turned up in an abandoned San Francisco Safety deposit box several years ago (Along with a LOT of other errors)....
Perfect, except that it is 180 degrees off.
What is the edge supposed to be?
Coins or girlfriends?
That is correct. All of the dies were created and mintmarks, if needed, were applied at the Philadelphia mint until the late 1990's when the...
As long as you don't look at the reverse.
The mintmarks were punched into the dies at Philadelphia not the branch mints.
Actually they thought they were an interesting novelty and offered to by them for 25 cents each, but after awhile they felt they were acquiring...
Yes but more like the other way around. VAMS are like Bolender varieties because the Bolender work on die varietes came long before the VAM book.
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