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It has to be tough to have fancied yourself an educated and skilled coin grader only to later find yourself with an entire collection of coins that are weak for the grade. (View Post)

I imagine that putting a bar through the rollers to make a strip from which to punch planchettes was similar to how the metal hoops for wagon wheels were manufactured? (View Post)

Great way for folks to get introduced to collecting! (View Post)

If it were a different, much better coin it would easily be a 66. (View Post)

Perhaps they are impurities in the planchet. A couple of others areas on the surface lol like pits where a contaminant may have broken down and fallen out. (View Post)