That is true, sometimes. The times it is true is if the contact mark is newer than the rest of the surface of the coin. But if a contact mark is...
Easy, if the coin is dropped in a flat horizontal plane, what other part would you expect to come into contact with something except the high...
Of course there is a reason. The reason is because they believe in the genrally accepted idea. But the thing about generally accepted ideas is...
You guys are leaving something out of your equations to determine pressure. Consider - when a coin is struck normally, it is in a confined space....
They expanded the service and now offer it with other tiers, but it aint free.
The same way any repunched mint mark looks like one is on top of the other.
Jim - just for giggles and to illustrate a point, pick out one of the least toned of those coins. Then post a side by side picture of it with a...
I agree, but I will admit I am amazed it looks that good after that long.
The reason I didn't respond in this thread is because I knew the answer before Thad ever posted this and I didn't want to screw up his experiment...
Why ? You can get MS66 coins in change at the grocery store. I used to get MS Morgans and circulated Morgans in the same roll. What I'm trying to...
Extremely unlikely. For one zinc is much, much softer than die steel. That's why it is used to polish it.
It's not that they are supposed to be weakly struck - they have to be weakly struck. That's just physics. if a certain amount of metal is...
No, they couldn't. There is no corner, it is a round, flat zinc plate. And if they even touched the die to the edge of that plate for even a half...
The Fed still doesn't roll coins. Coins are only rolled by private entities. Even those sold by the US Mint are rolled by a private entity.
Then me why that Jeff has not a single mark on its cheek when the entire planchet is covered with planchet marks. No Mike - I aint buyin it.
So you're telling me that those off center strikes are well struck because the dies are not aligned ? Sorry pal - I aint buyin that. There is no...
Yeah there is, probably a die chip or die erosion. As for this one - it's just a novelty struck on a genuine coin after it left the the US...
Now as you can see, some of those planchets had some really heavy & deep marks on them too. But you get to see part of the coin at the same time....
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