Jack, I posted some of my comments on the other thread but feel like this is more home to both you and me, so I can be even more mushy! You are...
I recently wrote this article which was just published in the latest edition of the Fly-In Club's Longacre Ledger and thought it might be of...
A friend of mine, Ron Sirna, gave me this interesting Wheat cent because he knows I like things like this. I didn't know what type of error this...
Hi Green, and yes it's true that I haven't been around here on CT much lately, mostly due to my show schedule. I've only spent about 14 nights at...
Thanks all! To answer a few questions.... PeacePeople, it's hard to determine if the Milwaukee people specifically were "cheap," since in my...
I just returned from the Central States show and, even though I posted some of this on another forum, I wanted to post it here and try and solicit...
I have the black amd white closeup photos of the diagnostics that Kevin took but they are in the wrong format and I'm not able to download them to...
Here is an update by Kevin Flynn after he had a chance to compare my 1909 MPL to the other guy's coin - he feels they both were made from the same...
That's not "extra metal" at 6:30-10:00 - the planchet is split or laminated (separated). And I see no "extra metal" from 3:30-4:30, just a flat...
Hi Chris, than you for your reply. Actually I did post it last night on the PCGS forum but didn't get many responses but Fred Weinberg just...
I posted this on the CU forum but haven't gotten many responses yet so I thought I'd post it here to. I recently bought this 1917-S Lincoln cent...
Idhair, you are right in that I probably should have laid low on this, and I did to some extent, but there is much more to this story and this guy...
It's funny you/your girlfriend should refer to this as "coin drama." I spent the weekend with my non-coin brother while doing the Tukwila/Seattle...
I'm embarassed to say I don't know how. :o
My understanding is that my piece was the first to be "authenticated" so I am guessing that's why they are calling it the "discovery" coin, though...
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I didn't crack it out, the guy I bought it from did and said he put it in an album (yes, scratchin my head on that one too!). Even without the...
Here are a few neat errors I recently acquired. I thought these were pretty interesting errors so I thought I'd share them here. [img]...
Here's an article Brian Wagner and Kevin Flynn wrote about a new die variety discovery I happen to find for a 1909 Matte Proof Lincoln. It was...
Hi all. As some of you may know, my computer crashed this past week. It's been very frustrating since the hard drive is "dead" and I hadn't...
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