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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 4457055, member: 19250&quot;]I&#039;ve taken a week off this week for two reasons,one being asked to by my company in order to keep our sales force working and no one being layed off do to Corvid-19. I have been in those shoes before myself.....and realize we all need to help each other.</p><p>Now I have been working in stores, as my title is sort of like a mid fielder in lacrosse, actually you&#039;re a defence man who sometimes gets to play offence in a game. So yes I do sell but more so train and do store sets for grand openings etc....</p><p>Anyway....</p><p>Since I could relax this morning with a coup of coffee and work at my desk a at home.</p><p>I pulled out an old purchased an 1876 dime.</p><p>There are certain years in numismatics that I trully enjoy to collect.</p><p>1876 happens to be one.</p><p><br /></p><p>The dime in question was a specimen I purchased years ago . Now I know I looked at It at the time of purchase.</p><p>However more so for a date set I was working on.</p><p>So this morning I pulled out a set of 1876 dimes and mom&#039;s.</p><p>My eye catches&nbsp; something in the denticles yes a mpd.....variety but there&#039;s more....you see picking coins there&#039;s always more.....that&#039;s what makes the chase so exciting.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1876 happens to be a type ll&nbsp; reverse -variety 101a obverse 1; medium date,downward slope,smallknob 6 .....and shattered dies!</p><p>The obv. 1 die crack through bottom of the date digits. The die crack proceeds up though Liberty&#039;s foot and exits into the rim below America.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now the type ll Reverse A is shattered durring the late die state.an internal cud has formed on the lower right portion of the corn ear.</p><p>What even more interesting is that even in late die state this variety continues to be bold and excellent in details.</p><p>My specimen is mid to early die state as the cud isn&#039;t seen at this stage...but edivence of it begins to show doe&#039;s exist. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now yes some varieties do command sweet preimums, some don&#039;t, but the real reward is personal one.</p><p>This is where you as a collector realizes that this hobby is so much more about learning than placing a medal round disc in a hole in a book.</p><p>You can learn......you can grow in this hobby.....but most of all is the self satifaction of your find,reconizeing that yeah this is a rare date...and yeah that is repunched,that is the die crack,or thats the &quot;pup&quot; pick up point....you need to take your hunch....to becoming a victory.</p><p>And just one more plus being a picker.....pay for a specimen at par/retail ,then discovering hey there&#039;s a lot more meat on that bone......and now that value is mine ,</p><p>as well as the satifaction of knowing you made the find......and that&#039;s another part you ...yes you could possibly find a &quot;new find&quot; or discovery coin.</p><p>&nbsp;These are the reason I love picking.....the hunt, the find....the knowlege you retain....and best of all .....you share with others.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Knowlege is power.....more ways than one....it&#039;s what lifes about learning and sharing,teaching...and always learning.[ATTACH=full]1111523[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1111524[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1111525[/ATTACH]</p><p>Die crack through the date is the pup for the 101a</p><p>You can see the top of the 8 and 76 in the denticles.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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