I'll keep my hands folded and quiet as long as our exponential economic growth (and that's the only kind of growth that can keep up with interest...
Or, to condense your point, "one man's trash is another man's treasure".
No, but I've got a very old benchtop digital multimeter with a Nixie display. I'll have to see if I can find it.
If you think that, you're insufficiently cynical to bid appropriately on these sorts of auctions. ;)
Hey, that 1944 looks like it might be a straight-clipped planchet! I'd be interested to see its reverse. Also, welcome to CoinTalk! :)
Yes, you got lucky -- but more importantly, you learned something about the seller: he (she?) doesn't know how to stage lots to maximize bidding....
It looks like the die-polish lines, if present, should come up from the shoulder toward the mintmark. I can't tell whether they're there or not in...
No, that's not what I meant to say. The coin is struck from a "sandwich" with pure copper in the middle layer and cupronickel (75% copper, 25%...
I haven't yet sprung for the Coin World Almanac. For those of you who have, does it give a source for the tolerances? The statutes I've found from...
And to think I erased the part of my original post that said "if I'm right, there'll be a groove around the rim of the coin where the copper got...
I'm surprised nobody else has called out "environmental damage". It looks to me like this coin is etched. I wouldn't be surprised if it is...
Dang, leave a nice 38-D or two for the rest of us...! :)
Yes, all Ikes were clad -- but the silver ones were 40% silver clad (80% over 20%), and their edges look just like that. I can't tell for sure...
https://catalog.usmint.gov/american-liberty-225th-anniversary-silver-four-medal-set-17XD.html?cgid=225th-anniversary-collection#start=1
You would've outbid me, but there's a good chance you'll still come out ahead. If I was getting an itchy BIN finger or had eBay bucks about to...
A rusty 1943-P cent.
That's pretty good, with melt around 12.5x.
Why does the poor guy have two right eyes? :yack:
And no silver at all in 1977 or 1978, IIRC. Now that I'm home on a better screen, I can see that at least two of the 1971 Ikes have no mintmark...
I wouldn't have been a winning bidder, because based on what I can see, I would've priced it as 3 40% halves, 1 90% half, 20 clad halves, and 20...
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