Happy to help. It's not something I already knew, but I remembered reading about that diagnostic mark on the 18/17 overdate, remembered that it...
That's true in general, but it gets a little complicated for toning. Like a rainbow, toning separates the colors of the spectrum -- and if your...
It looks like it's from the E in E PLURIBUS UNUM (image from Mad Die Clashes): [IMG]
That is a die clash. It's quoted as a marker for the 1918/17-S overdate, but if it's this common, I wonder how reliable it is...
That label... it's like they're not even trying. :(
As an "explanation" the stuff from the RCM leaves a lot to be desired. "We zoom in on microscopic die characteristics, which we won't specifically...
I'm pretty sure that's not pull-away toning. Pull-away toning looks more like the device "casting a shadow" away from the center of the coin. The...
Sounds like synthetic luster to me, which makes me wonder how they'd produce dies that maintain the effect across a reasonable number of strikes....
Lady Liberty will be issued a firearm to carry.
I definitely remember the gold color (paint, not gold-plating, at that time) from their first appearance -- there were only a couple of models...
Okay, I missed this thread the first time around, and it made me do a double-take this time. Like many, many thousands of others, I went to one of...
Inkjet printing is fast and easy. Laser etching, not so much. Think about it -- instead of just spraying widgets coming by on a conveyor belt, the...
If "They" have the technology to get radio signals in and out of a solid silver shell, "They" don't need to track us with chips, because "They"...
Shameful confession: not all my random circulated wheats are in secure facilities. :rolleyes: Now keep your eye on my local news for "burglar...
Yep, I remember those ads. I got one lot from eBay that included quite a few Wheat cents. I went through them quickly, and realized that there...
As you get older, the ground gets further away, and the round-trip takes longer. :oldman:
Mind if I take a good long time staring at it trying to decide? :woot:
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