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Re: Stack’s Bowers Galleries Partners with David Hall to Launch Collectible Market Qualified (CMQ)
In adding to Coinbuf's comment, ANACS graded several variety coins well before NGC and PCGS- Including Morgan VAMs and various double dies among others- such as the 1946 WLH DDR. I see no compelling reason not to accept ANACS graded coins such as these if it is really is about the coin. Further, seems the decision making… -
Re: Frederick Coin Show..
zenny: It's a complicated and tangled story. The "one confirmed specimen in private hands" that you mention might possibly be the one that Frank Gasparro had, that I mentioned above, or it may not. Ed Reiter of COINage had the opportunity of interviewing Frank before he died, and the highlight of his interview was when… -
Re: Still new at this... so looking for some opinions.
Flatten those staples down! :| No idea on RPMs or DDs, but the "struck through".... Visualize what happens with a struck through error - a foreign object gets between the planchet and dies and is stuck into the coin (it usually falls or wipes away and doe snot stay in place). So the error would be an indentation into the… -
Re: why do I see proof modern gold sold sometimes less than regular gold?
what do you do with 40 or 50 proofs in those cheesy looking packages? Do everyone a favor and smash the capsule scratch the coin and set fire to all that velvety garbage they swaddle it all in. Oh, the humanity! Hey, what do you expect from the Mint? It's the Mint!!! We're way past the time when "proof" was a test coin for… -
Re: whats in a name?
et tu burte??????? , now it is hark hark harkened he i am the east, and juliet is the sun, and he huffed and puffed, and smoked the house down, and they all blew up and died after the fell off the beanstalk and hit humpty dumpty in the head and he broke and they got some brains, a heart, home , a a can of spam, and lived… -
Re: O.T. The Monte Carlo is on fire!
should we also pray for everyone else who dies today? car accidents. fall down the stairs. tiger mauls them after a taunting. a soldier killed in iraq. a bum overdoses under a bridge. a heart attack takes a life of an elderly person. is it because this is las vegas that this is somehow worthy of attention? what about my… -
Re: Best of the Mint 1916 Standing Liberty Quarter Dollar Gold Coin and Silver Medal Set
No. If ABPP isn't all in, it's because they don't think it will be worth their while to have them Advance Release pedigreed for sale on TV and the internet. Those are coins whose pedigree will be lost forever. They are not going to be replaced later at a discount. They will not be getting them "cheaper later" because,… -
Re: Thankfully, Daniel Carr is using his press for good rather than evil, but what happens if it falls i
As is always the case with these discussions, there are some people on the fringes of the argument, while (hopefully) most of us can talk about the middle. I do not believe that Dan Carr broke into the Denver Mint and stole the press -- it is much more likely that the mint sold a used press as scrap or something similar.… -
Re: Half Dime experts..a quickie
The 1854 Liberty Seated half dime ranks among the highest mintage dates in the entire series, with fully 5,740,000 produced at the Philadelphia Mint alone. With such a high mintage, and owing to the advent of the hubbing process used in producing the many working dies, making all dies essentially identical, the ability to… -
Re: 3 bust quarters, 3 different dates, but same dies used
<< <i> << <i>It could also be that the collar was looser on the 1807. With less resistance at the edge of the coin, the dies would get less resistance from the surface of the coin. That would allow them to get a little closer to each other in the striking process, which would improve the depth of strike detail. Except at…
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