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Re: Another Reason for Weak Strikes
<< <i> << <i>I'm curious if the San Francisco Mint also carried out the proof die preparation for Ikes? >> A lot of the plating and polishing of our proof dies is done by the Royal Canadian Mint. They have been chrome plating their dies since at least the mid 1950's and they nave a lot of experience with it. Whether or not… -
Indiana Primitives - Henry Higgins and His Copy Dies
Henry Higgins was jack of many trades who made Civil War tokens. He also made eye glasses, weather barometers, guns, jewelry, and false teeth. Higgins issued merchant tokens for his business, and he made tokens for other merchants as well. He also made Patriotic tokens which cannot be attributed to any specific merchant.… -
Re: Are there really a lot of counterfeit 1950 D Jeffersons out there?
They were worth a lot more in the 1960's during the roll craze. At the time, someone started striking a quantity of fakes using false dies. Also, some folks would take 1959-D nickels and would shave the tail off the last 9 to create an 0. These weren't too convincing since the 0 was too small but they fooled a few people. -
Re: 1995 penny struck on dime -PICS ADDED-first post-Mint product or fake?
You guys can not authenticate this coin from that pic. Some really convincing counterfeit errors have been created by overstriking real coins with high quality false dies. John Devine's counterfeit detection books have some really good pics of these coins. While this coin is probably real, it needs to be authenticated by… -
Re: Authenticating 1909-S VDB pennies
Usually counterfeit 1909-S VDB cents are either struck from false dies or they take common genuine 1909 VDB cents and attach an S mintmark using glue or solder. I've never heard of taking a genuine 1909-S which is a relatively expensive coin and adding a near microscopic "V.D.B." which would seem to be a very difficult… -
Re: So was the wisconsin error quarter heavily counterfitted?
Due to the fact that the extra leaves on the Wisconsin quarters are RAISED above the surface of the coin, it would be virtually impossible to create a counterfeit of the varieties from a genuine coin. The only way would be to create them from false dies or molds, which given the high grades of virtually all examples (AU or… -
Where did PCGS get there false info on the Chopped Trade Dollar?
<<<Many Chinese/Eastern merchants would take a tiny chunk of profit from each trade by "chopping" out a piece of silver from the Trade dollar.>>> This is completly false & misleading! Nothing was chopped out or removed from the coin. The chop is actually a character that is struck into the coin with a punch. This needs to… -
Re: 09SVDB 100% Success, both listings PULLED! Happy New Year!!
@MsMorrisine I think I know who the former member you are talking about is and may try to reach out to them for more info. Information I have now would suggest more than one reverse die was used but I am unable to confirm that at this time and don't want to give out false information. My additional research on the reverse… -
Re: Cud on this 1874 $1 gold?
The coin is real. I have a slabbed version with the same issues. While the die is deteriorated, so was the hub used to make the die. Some 1874's have just the L in LIBERTY showing in the headband while others have no letters showing in the headband. There are counterfeits produced from false dies made from authentic coins… -
Re: Palmeiro returns today. Wonder what the reaction will be.
Way to drag politics into it pandrews...too bad you didn't come up with that on your own and stole it from the dan patrick show on espn radio. I'd rather have a president who lied about sex with an intern than a president who lied about leading us into a war on false pretenses for his buddies' oil interests. When Clinton…
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