This guy has GOT to be joking...

Outhaul

Check out his discovery coin for a laugh. It will be featured in his "soon to be published" book. "Better jump at this beauty"

Cheers,

Bob

kranky

His first book has been out for a while now.

dthigpen

Silly.

ziggy29

I have a discovery coin at home, on top of our washer.

My wife *discovered* that I forgot to take it out of my pocket before I put it in the hamper, and it wound up getting washed.

pharmer

he's deadly from 3 inches in, but he can't drive worth a dam

ksteelheader

What am I missing here??

IrishMike

Actually I think its the hanging chad variety, notice the chad between the B & E in Liberty.

itsnotjustme

He missed the major cud also.... see it beside the E of LIBERTY

eyoung429

Crap........now I have to go back through the 2000 pennies that my son got me for Christmas.

gotta be about 30 or so in there.

dthigpen

I think every one of this guy's varities is unique to the coin he found it on.

dimples

He's probably the life of the party in his social circle.

Murphy

I really need to borrow some mailers from y'all so I can save enough money to buy his $60 book. It don't have to be mailers, I just said that because someone already used flips, the obvious item, last year.
Actually, I shouldn't be poking fun at the guy, other thanh his high-priced book. I may be a lot like he is. I use to show Chuck Daughtrey (Coppercoins) a coin or two a week for over a month until I got tired of being shot down constantly by him and the others on his website. I get all excited at even the first hint of doubling! I found a 1969-S that was very heavily machine doubled, but I though it might be the real thang...NOPE. Who knows about this guy's coin. It might be real, it might be a "discovery coin", I am certainly nobody to judge him!

Prethen

You know, I'll probably tick off a person or two by saying this, but if I have to bring out the microscope to show somebody something "interesting" about a coin, it ain't worth collecting. Now a 1955 DD is a different story...it's obvious and can be seen with the naked eye. As a collector (with an eye towards value) this type of stuff is a total turn off.

I apologize if a number of you hate me now.

pharmer

Hey Murphy, I resemble these remarks too. My golf reference was comparing Billy, who only sees coins from 3 inches away with a 14x magnifier, to a guy who makes all his putts from 6 feet in, but can't hit the fairway. He's the main man when it comes to new discoveries lately, he's single handedly bringing the mint to its knees on its claims of no more varieties, and he is blazing a trail for the rest of us variety seekers by creating a market on ebay for this kind of stuff.

Hey, to really steal this thread, I just 5 minutes ago found an ms65+ 1950s 1c rpm-2. And it's not just an s/s/s, it's s/s/s/s/s, four notches lower serif plus the north. Condition census, ms-urs 5, wow.

Bill

HTubbs

Actually this guy is pretty well known in variety circles.
As for what I'm going to say,some of you may be offended.If you are you've got a few screws loose.
Since the variety world hasn't had any nice doubled die for a couple of decades,they've resorted to finding varieties that need a 100x microscope to find!Unfortunately,many collecters including non variety collecters have jumped on the bandwagon.Just look at the high prices that the Peace medal DDOs are bringing,for a variety that in my opinion isn't worth $5!I think that varieties are only worthwhile if they can be seen with 10x magnification.This used to be the opinion of many variety specialists,some even saying 5x magnification.
Unfortunately some of them are now praising these new microscopic varieties.Take the 2004 DDO cent,the plate coin is selling on eBay for several hundred dollars:LinkIt's absolutly crazy!I wouldn't pay $5 bucks for that coin!And I certainly couldn't see the doubling under 10x!
The club for error collectors (CONECA)has followed this new trend also.In a recent issue they showed several other cent varieties with inflated prices that I'm still scratching my head trying to figure out,how someone would even consider purchasing one.It's not just cents either.There was a proof 1999-S SBA that I couldn't even see doubling on in the pics.I had a price tag of $400 in Pr-68!Now how much a PR-70DCam would be valued out would blow my mind!It's a shame that a once respectable club is showcasing this junk.If it wasn't for the articles on worthwhile errors(and "Eddie")I might consider putting the $25 to a much better use! -Hayden

ksteelheader

Guys, this all boils down to this.




Collect what you like. Let others collect what they like!

That's not too hard to understand is it?

Shamika

I don't collect varieties, but many people are fanatics for varieties and his book is probably quite informative.

The variety that he is selling may admittedly be minor, but I wouldn't be so quick to make fun of him. If we do, we're no better than the geeks who make fun of us for collecting Buffalo nickels, holed coins, ultra LOW grades, sample slabs, etc.

He sure as hell takes pretty good pictures.

lordmarcovan

<< <i>You know, I'll probably tick off a person or two by saying this, but if I have to bring out the microscope to show somebody something "interesting" about a coin, it ain't worth collecting. Now a 1955 DD is a different story...it's obvious and can be seen with the naked eye. As a collector (with an eye towards value) this type of stuff is a total turn off.

I apologize if a number of you hate me now. >>



Prethen, far from hating you, I agree with you. As does Scott Travers, if some of his past writings on "winners and losers" might indicate.

However, ksteelheader must also be agreed with... diff'rent strokes fer diff'rent folks, and all that.

pocketpiececommems

I like Ziggy29's discovery coin. (Of course I would like for it to have a hole in it) I wonder how much it would bring on Ebay along with the grilled cheese and the Texas snowball

Myqqy

You know, I'll probably tick off a person or two by saying this, but if I have to bring out the microscope to show somebody something "interesting" about a coin, it ain't worth collecting.

While some people may find microscopic varieties interesting, I also think they're pretty ridiculous.... numismatics is all about minutia, but there's a line at which it just becomes pretty goofy....

ksteelheader

<< <i>However, ksteelheader must also be agreed with... diff'rent strokes fer diff'rent folks, and all that. >>



Thank You Sir! You'll be pleased to know that I have found out how inexpensive really nice specimens of coins can be when they are holed and have taken to buying such specimens. Such as the 1833 half dime that is hanging from my ear as I type.

19Lyds

<< <i>but if I have to bring out the microscope to show somebody something "interesting" about a coin, it ain't worth collecting. >>



I could not have said it better!

Coppernicus

You folks are really missing the point here - If you look closely at his pics, you'll see some small, dark (black?) arrows angling down towards the devices, originating from the northwest, and angling down to the southeast. Never, in all my years of collecting, have I ever seen this type of mint error. Further, I think he has incorrectly attributed this one. I see a CDDDOOOO-FS103.462-VAM88. Very rare......................

Mike

Dog97

I see that nobody refuted that it might actually be Class IV + VIII offset and tilted hub doubling.

littlebear329

where's the doubling at.

HTubbs

<< <i>where's the doubling at. >>


It all depends on how advanced your imagination is.

ozzysdad

Even with my alledged imagination, I don't see it? But, i certainly won't knock it. I've certainly seen some neat examples as of late.