This image compares to your # 4 photo, it is a 69S cent and it is considered mechanical doubling since the underlying images have a flat sheared...
The scratch line does draw the conclusions mentioned, but I thought the OP asked about the lump on the thigh , which could be a very small die...
There will be other "Findings" in your collecting efforts, so label a can or box " Findings of Days past" and write a novel and become famous... Jim
Some people think it is a requirement to be a forum member, and more than half are right in my opinion :)
Many of the pitted gold coins of the era were cleaned with cyanide solutions. J. Sanford Saltus accidently killed himself on June 23, 1922 under...
Thought about banning everyone for a day as a March 32nd fool trick, but that would start a new legend :)
Truth is hard to find as so many don't know it and yet want to appear they do.This is in every field of life. The only way to be successful is to...
I have used it as planchet. Dictionary planchet noun plan·chet | \ ˈplan-chət \ Definition of planchet 1 : a metal disk to be stamped...
Since we are doing Ses, Here is my 1955 S/S/S Jim [ATTACH]
No, I don't. I only even visited Texas for the first time in 2000. It was for an Anatomy and Physiology convention in Dallas. I did get to go to a...
When I was offered these in a flip, I was so enthralled I didn't care. Gold was close to $100 an ounce and that was a lot of money then . Jim
I do not believe you can be accurate in determining. NGC says in print that they can't tell the difference and they previously labeled all 1947 as...
Nice, I like the early ones, but harder to find in uncirculated condition. It helps to live near the Mexican border. Jim
D Cross ?
Maybe the mint will switch to the QR coding on coins rather than ABC letters so even your cell phone could read them as they slide past. Easy to...
Jim, In reality the toning is a chemical change on the surface of the coin, it is part of the coin. So any removal of toning will remove part of...
Many of them are restrikes such as these below [ATTACH] But this one is an earlier monetary strike. [ATTACH] They each have the amount of...
That is true due to the struck surfaces. Here is a microscopic view @100X [ATTACH] The left is Morgan surface, right is the Peace surface. The...
Everyone should take this as a "different" type of "Guess the value "with no one being responsible for whatever guess they made, nor will any...
Too dark for me. When you look on eBay the reverse has a few blank circular dots that looks to me like a "liquid bubble" might have been used...
Separate names with a comma.
