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Re: New Acquisition: 1787 Silver Fugio Cent - so called New Haven Restrike PCGS AU-55
It's an off-metal striking produced from copy dies, and falls into the same category as the 1860s Bolen copies of Colonial coins in all ways but one: the Fugio is in the Redbook. -
Re: My Next Mild Itch To Scratch, 1922 Lincoln No "D"
Sorry, but the D was not polished off at some point, there are No D 1922 Lincolns, they left the mint that way, and are identified as indicated below Die Pairs #1, #3 and #4 were the result of “mint grease”, which is a combination of dirt, metal, and oil, filling the area of the mintmark. Mint grease would fill the… -
Re: 2020-W Weir Farm Quarter Struck Through
Grease does tend to accumulate on dies and the heat from the strikes make it very hard, then loosens and falls onto the planchet (like dropped letters) - so maybe that scenario........? -
Re: My Tombstone AZ Antique Mall "Find"
Well, as a lifelong Illinoisian...if that's what we are called, we are done with cold and snow. While there may still be a small amount of snow down in Sierra Vista area where we are looking, it is much less than the amounts that fall in northern AZ. We considered Flagstaff and over in the St. Johns area but with the… -
Re: Capped Bust Halves for 2011™ Post your purdy lady here. Crusty, Lusty, whatever!! Comments and educa
Great photos Lance, thanks also ! I agree about the 1808/7, the dies are practically falling apart it seems, yet some areas look fabulously struck ! -
Re: Jeff Fritsch of Fritsch Cards died at 58.
scary for me who is 58. Died at home--heart attack or fall is usually what happens there if sudden. RIP and condolences to his family. Another hobby icon gone -
Re: $2.50 struck from French indemnity gold - 1836
All good info. Unless the 10 QE sent to the Secretary of the Treasury were made with unique dies - it may take alloy testing to tell them apart. If by chance they used a specific die pair for only those 10 (unlikely, but let's go with it for a moment)... with only 10 made, there wouldn't be too many today. Of the 15?… -
Re: "Triple Struck" Nickel in Mint Packaging?! Smells like an interesting "scam"...
<<So basically a mint made sandwich between two already struck coins.>> Not a sandwich (unless you consider it an open-faced sandwich). Two coins were struck together, leaving a brockage on both. The top coin was, of course, struck off-center. <<I am not sure why an unstruck planchet is mentioned?>> That's the curved line… -
Re: 1968 Shield nickle - Die break?
For starters you have obverse and reverse confused, the features you describe are on the reverse. Your coin is from the second reverese hub that was used in 1868, the "Hub of 1868". This hub was only used this one year and the master hub was used to make working dies directly. The raised line that you see through the… -
Re: Who in the world is this?
Hoff is best remembered for being the oldest living ex-major leaguer at the time of his death in Daytona Beach, Florida at age 107. Hoff died of complications resulting from an accidental fall.
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