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@djm said:

@PerryHall said:
I wouldn't be surprised if there are more examples of this coin hiding in safe deposit boxes or even in an old shoe box in the back of someone's closet.

I would tend to doubt it. This coin has been known for 44 years and there were many press releases at the time of discovery. The fact that the 2 were found together leads me to believe that the coins were removed from the sets already packaged an these two were missed.

The first 1794 Starred Reverse Large Cent wasn't discovered til the 1890's. Just because a coin has been known for "x" amount of years, doesn't mean there aren't more out there. Agreed with Mr. Wondercoin. I'm sure it's figured into the price somehow. Who knows, maybe there's a roll of 1964-D Peace Dollars out there.

Here's one from my collection...

Interesting coin... Thanks for sharing.

I cannot resist before this thread is closed.

This cycle has been going on for 1,000,000's of years.

Hello everyone!
Today we are going to talk a little bit about the geologic history of Massachusetts and New England. As you probably know, in Earth’s past, the planet has experienced periods of cooling called ice ages for the past 2.6 million years during the Quaternary period. In these ice ages, large, moving ice masses, called glaciers were a prevalent feature of the topography. Even today, there are glaciers left over from our last ice age, although they are much less common.
The most recent ice age peaked about 23,000 years ago. Glaciers covered approximately 1/3 of all land on earth. All of these glaciers were formed by snow that turned into ice through compaction and recrystallization. Because of all the snow used to created these giant ice masses, nearly 5% of the earth’s water was trapped in the glaciers, which is over 10 million cubic miles of water. This caused the sea levels to fall eustatically, so the coasts then extended 100 miles farther out to sea than they do today. During the ice ages, the earth was a different planet.

I'm not that mad that I lived during ONE of the many warming cycles.

@ErrorsOnCoins said: "You, however, will need to move as Floridah is sinking into the rising sea levels from global warming."

Not while I'm alive. However, I DO EXPECT the Great Disaster to hit CA within my lifetime - maybe 10 years left. So enjoy your fishing.

I have a degree in Geology.

Global warming and global cooling happens. As for FL, the base temperature of our continent has gone up and down all through time - even before humans and their "modern" technology were around in any large numbers. These temperature changes are caused by the orientation of the earth to the SUN.

Stopped at my LCS after lunch today and picked this up. I’ve been working like a dog these last few months with no relief in sight. Thought I would reward myself for all of my hard work. Another addition to the gold type set.

@wondercoin said:
Update: Tom... I have good news and bad news...

I opened my set (the good news), but in the process there were 3 coins that I was “prompted” to add- two of which were not even varieties at all. I have no idea how they even went missing in the first place. Anyway, the bad news is that I am still in the lead now by 1/100th of a point. Lol. You need to find one more coin!

Wondercoin.

Now That is Just funny. Thanks for opening up your set so I can go take a look. Now don't you have a Variety that you have more than one sitting around? I thought I traced two coins into this set. 1950 s/d ? The quest continues for one more coin....

@CoinscratchFever said:
Why is it only a 64, is this a weak strike?

Yes the obverse In god we trust is weak but hair detail seems good. Reverse has a few hits on the eagles knees. I like the coin as a MS 64

Got it and used it already!

This just arrived. Fire off some of your $1 gold pieces.