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Re: OT: Rick Reilly's latest article
I must've missed the part where FDR brought the country into war with false claims of the Nazis having WMDs. I guess when in doubt, compare W's crusade to World War II? Jesus, talk about incoherent rambling. Rosie the friggin Riveter?? ROFLMAO By the way, would you be happier if 1,000 more troops died in this war? Sounds… -
Rotated double strike
I posted pics of this several months ago and some thought itreal. Well I took it to the April Santa Clara show and had ANACS look at it for authentication. He told me it was a false die. I asked how he could tell and he said it didn't look right but gave no details. Now my question is, why bother. Even if real it wouldn't… -
New Book for those interested in the Confederate Cent -
This new book may be of interest. You can google the title to find out where to buy the book. The description is from the publisher's web site. "The Lovett Cent; a Confederate Story" by George Corell, Harold Levi “The Lovett Cent; a Confederate Story” is about the Confederate cent. There are false and misleading stories… -
Re: PCGS graded fantasy patterns
The Swedish pieces are authentic fantasy issues. They are not copies of an official coin. The Carr 64-D's were made from false dies of an official coin. The two things are apples and oranges. Why did PCGS decide to grade the Swedish pieces? I don't know, but I can see a legitimate argument for doing so. On the other hand,… -
Re: New Garrett Pro pointer
I use the original pro pointer. After less than a year, I had to send it in for repair because of falsing. Garrett sent me a replacement, probably because mine was irreparable. I'm not confident in the robustness of the product, but, will keep using it until it dies. I wouldn't upgrade to the AT unless I were doing… -
Re: 1861-S Paquet Reverse
In order to make a credible fake the counterfeiter needs a high grade problem free coin from which to cast his die. This coin is extremely rare in high grade and problem free condition and its unlikely the typical counterfeiter will ever get ahold of one to make his false dies. Being in a third world holder, I would be… -
Re: Misuse of numismatic terminology
Ok I wish I hadn't mentioned the 55....... But what I was trying to get across is that I wasn't talking about the 55 when I didn't put hub problems under the PDS classification in my very first post to this thread. If I understand correctly the DDO 55 was created when the working hub shifted between impressions on a… -
The making of an 1854 Huge O Quarter Counterfeit and my latest Article
The original holed genuine source coin: The coin was purchased and repaired to make the false dies to strike the counterfeits; repaired coin was certified after the repairs ("repaired genuine source coin"): Much re-engraving was required in the repairs; struck clones looked identical to this one: Coin Week article at:… -
WILD TRIPLE DENOMINATION 1945 10C-1972-25C-$1 HOW THIS HAPPEN?
CHECKING MY QUARTERS NOTICED THIS ON 1972 QUARTER. i UNDERSTAND HOW THW IKR STRUCK THE QUARTER BUT HOW DID THE DIME GET IN THERE?DIME WITH QUARTER PLANCHETTE THEN STRUCK BY QUARTER DIES THEN IKE DIES? ANY EXPERIENCE HOW I SHPULD SUBMIT THIS TO PCGS? HAVING BAD EXPERIENCES LATELY WITH COINS BEING ATTRIBUTED AND CONCERNED… -
Re: Lets see some pics of EXTREME error coins!
a major error at the Mint resulted in the obverse die falling on the reverse die Looks like the obverse die did more than "fall". It SLAMMED into the reverse die. The obverse die actually reached into the recesses of the E of "ONE". Yet the clash only shows a small portion of the obverse die. I wonder if the dies hit at a…
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