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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 36585, member: 57463&quot;]What book are you using?&nbsp; It sounds as if you have a Krause Standard Catalog.&nbsp; Is that correct?</p><p><br /></p><p>In order to see the differences among &quot;die doubling&quot; &quot;recut dates&quot; and &quot;die chatter&quot; you have to know something about the process of creating dies and striking coins.&nbsp; Then, based on that, you have to know what you are looking at.&nbsp; In short, someone has to see the coin, though it may be that an expert can tell from your description.&nbsp; Also, there are other books specifically about Mexican coinage.&nbsp; You might have to hunt one down and read it in Spanish.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It means that a die engraver retooled the numerals, either making them bolder and stronger, or changing them into other numerals.&nbsp; Such coins are true varieties and may command a premium -- unless of course such coins outnumber the others of the same date.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It depends on which book you are using, of course.&nbsp; Even so, the Casa de Moneda produced an astronomically huge volume of coinage.&nbsp; Not every variety can be listed in a general catalog and not every variety was discovered when the catalog was printed.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Such coins are junk, ruined, worthless.&nbsp; That said, there are many rarities known only in that condition and as much as we wish they were not damaged, damaged they are.&nbsp; In the standard reference, <i>Greek Coins and their Values </i> by David Sear, the plate coin for Athens, a large silver dollar size dekadrachma has an ugly test cut right in the middle.&nbsp; Darn.&nbsp; Rare and valuable, this is still a museum piece today.&nbsp; More commonly, U.S. $1 gold and $3 gold, etc., also have solder and other problems.&nbsp; The coins are rare enough and demanded enough that knowledgeable collectors pay well for them -- though not as much as for an undamaged example.&nbsp; For a common coin in common grade, solder is bad news.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, eBay is America&#039;s favorite marketplace.&nbsp; There are dealers who specialize in Spanish American issues -- Ponterio, for instance, an ANA member, and I believe also PNG, very respectable -- and you could wholesale to them.&nbsp; Also, there are two coin newspapers, <i>Coin World </i> and <i>World Coin News</i>.&nbsp; <i>Coin World </i> is a general topics news and features weekly, the largest in the business with nearly 100,000 subscribers; 100 pages each week.&nbsp; Their classified ads are cost-effective for many sellers.&nbsp; They are considered a trusted venue by buyers.&nbsp; <i>World Coin News </i> is smaller, a monthly with fewer pages and far fewer subscribers (10,000 or below, I believe).&nbsp; However, it is more focused on non-American coins.&nbsp; Again, its classifieds are a traditional marketplace.&nbsp; <i>World Coin News </i> is a Krause publication and Krause also has a general interest paper, <i>Numismatic News</i>.&nbsp; Again, smaller than <i>Coin World</i>, one of the draws for <i>Numismatic News</i> is that subscribers who are not professional dealers get one free classified ad per week.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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