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The submitter would have had that information when submitted, since it's a discovery piece, so ANACS's fee would have been for variety verification. Had the coin been submitted without attribution, t… (View Post)

Consensus is that it was a manually altered die. As for how many strikes from typical die, I'm going to guess 300,000, but that's a wet finger estimate. That info isn't in the Mint's annual report. P… (View Post)

This brings up another subtle, often confusing, difference in terminology -- die state vs. die stage. Die state specifies how long the die has been in use based mostly on observed die wear. It can al… (View Post)

I have an inbound registered package "stuck" in the Birmingham, AL, USPS facility for a few weeks. The person that sent it also has a couple packages being sent to him that have disappeared… (View Post)

I've done this for some coins, but not many. Most notably, the 1888-O Scarface $1, which has 12 stages cataloged at a finer level of detail than the VAM catalog. The problem with doing this is not on… (View Post)