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Re: So Ken Griffey Jr. hates coins?
<< <i> << <i> << <i> << <i>ARod.....$28,000,000 a year, 155 games, 3 at bats per avg game.......$60,215 per AB, thats alot of pennies >> Thats slightly misleading as it doesnt account for his defense, or practice sessions. Take my line of work as an example. $75,000 a year....average of maybe 18 fires per year...thats… -
Re: What was the rate of striking of coins by the mints steam press c. 1850?
The smallest coins might have taken longer than dollars or double eagles. From examining gold dollars and silver 3-cents, it seems they have more clashed dies than other denominations. A practical guess is that the small planchets stuck in the feeding tubes more easily than larger planchets. (Due to low mass and surface… -
Re: Die cracked obverse 1839-O half on Ebay
I'm certainly not an expert on the Bust halves, particularly the Reeded Edge Bust halves, but I think we can be sure that they are die cracks and not planchet flaws. In fact, we can attribute that die marriage to the JR-2 1839-O, which cracked even more extensively than this. I believe this is a (Die) State a, as the die… -
Re: Why don't we see higher grades in Business strikes compared to Proof strikes?
There's something that can go wrong at each stage of the minting process and it usually does. This is really no exaggeration since most coins are not perfect in any of their characteristics. It starts with the master dies and hubs. The dies wear and often don't contain the full detail for the issue so no coin struck that… -
Re: Anyone think this coin is anything special??
If the reverse is not that of a 1938-P or 1939-P Reverse of 1938 working die, one has to question where the Reverse of 1938 working die came from that would have needed to be paired with the Obverse of 1940, that would have stuck how many coins? and we're looking at the first 71 years later??? This also could fall under… -
Re: Gold coins for under $2500: Latest DW article
This strategy seems to me like DW is contradicting an earlier article/blog he released circa 23 Oct 2006? I would venture that S-mint $1 gold is right in the same league as S-mint $10's and Philly $20s. San Fran Type III $20s?? In his Oct 23 blog, he addresses those coins that fall into a "ubiquitous" category as being… -
Re: What caused the creation of these shiny marks on mint state mercury dimes?
In my opinion the shiny areas are caused by repeated travel of the feeding mechanism across the die face. Note that the feeding finger shown earlier in this thread (from my coin press) is the relatively new rotational ("turntable") feeding style. However, earlier coins stamped on Bliss and other similar presses were… -
Re: So-Called Dollar Mini-Hoard...........................And still more pictures added!!!!!
Please, please, please excuse my poor quality and hastily taken pictures................. HK-4 which looks to have been polished/whizzed and had some rim repai done at 8 o'clock on the reverse. HK-13 with PL fields and blue-black tone overall. HK-19 that's clean overall but looks to have had the fields wiped, no hairlines… -
Re: Goodacre recovery.
<< <i>Unknown as to the cause, her husband found her and she could not remember falling. >> Sounds like what happened to my grandma, but she remembered the fall. She was widowed and lived next door to a widower. They had a prearranged signal to each other. At about 10 AM each morning, they would each open a set of drapes… -
Re: Token Thursday!
Hard Times Token HT-154 Rarity 3 , Copy Of Gold Medal Awarded To R & W Robinson For The Best Military, Naval, Sporting & Plain Flat Buttons 1836 American Institute New York. Just enough red peaking through to show off the devices & exactly how I like them to look. Usually this particular one suffers from a pitted die and…
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