But you cannot have raised lines unless you also have low areas (incuse) in between those lines. That is what defines the lines afterall.
Well not really because the waffled coins are not worn out coins. They were coins that the mint culled before they were ever shipped out.
The Mint used to run ads in the coin mags a few years ago krispy - offering to sell the waffled coins. And profit would have been recognized under...
The answer to why is money. People do it because they believe it will allow them to sell the coin for more money than they could have otherwise....
Don't know why you'd bother, I can already tell you what the opinions will be. They'll side with the TPG. And still won't change my opinion....
No you didn't say always. But yet every coin that has been posted in these threads you have claimed that the marks were planchet marks and not...
And I submit they are not. The progressive & additonal marks on and from the O moving upwards and through the legends to the marks just inside the...
Ahhhh - but they don't "get away" from the mint - they are sold by the mint at a profit ;) Those not sold by the mint are sent to refiners...
It's amazing what one can learn sometimes if one takes the time to read the dry and often boring internal reports & audits issued by the Treasury....
Absolutely. If a coin has PVC contamination for example - it must be removed. But the removal needs to be done in a way that will not harm the...
Hmmmmm - I don't think there is anybody more vocal on this board, and most others, than I am. And yet I have not owned a single coin in over 4...
I thought everybody knew this. The proper way to crack out a coin is you first find some guy you secretly dislike. He holds the slab, upright, on...
If a coin is worn enough, or damaged in such a way that a bank feels it should be removed from circulation then those coins are returned to the...
Looks like roll friction to me - and I'd say it was there when slabbed - but ignored.
I wouldn't call it die crumbling at all, and it's an entirely different look than the other coin I argued about. This one I would say those are...
There is a huge difference between something that is secret and something that most simply don't know. Of course it's not a secret. If you read...
Glad it did - it confirms what I have always said - that premiums on toned coins did not start until around 2002. That was just the beginning of...
No idea as I have not been trying to keep track of them in regard to quality of strike. Something worth mentioning though - you have been claiming...
You said - "One of these days I'm going to blow the lid off of taping & flowing in the dry wall business." So - are you an ex-sheetrocker ?
Rule of thumb - PCGS will only list varieties that are in the Red Book. NGC does a few more, but not many.
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