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Re: dropped letter errors
A dropped digit happens when the recess of the die fills with crud and falls out onto a planchet. Since this crud has been hardened from the constant heat & pounding of the dies it is almost as hard as steel and leaves it's imprint in the surface of the coin. -
Re: What do you think NGC graded this GSA? (Grade posted...)
MS63 max. Edited, was rushed for time. I'll say that these dollars from this date/mint come hammered. This is not one of those. Well used obverse and reverse dies. I'll deduct one point just because it falls under the norm. bob -
Re: Buffalo 2 feathers...........does anyone care?
They are overpolished dies, juat like the 37D buffalo with the missing leg. There are a lot of other anomalies caused by overpolished dies that nobody cares about, like throatless Lincolns and raised roof Lincolns just to name a couple. I guess some catch on, others don't. As for the feather stuff - I think there are too… -
Re: When were football cards released during the early 1980s?
Well, the reason I ask is because of this card. Joe Delaney died in late June of 1983. Consequently there is no way this autograph could be real. (And yes, common sense says football cards wouldn't have been released until late summer/early fall.) -
Re: 2007-D Lincoln off center error for $212?!
Major off-center errors went the way of the Edsel when the Mint converted from their old vertically-oriented coining equipment to new Schuller presses with horizontal die alignment. In English, that means instead of the dies moving up and down to strike coins, they now move side to side. So in the past, where a misfed… -
Re: New book, The 1838-O Half Dollar, by Kevin Flynn and John Dannreuther
<< <i>Kevin: <<Read your article prior to writing my 1838-O Half Dollar book with JD, IMO your article it was more of an attack on Mark and David's 38-O book.>> Greg - My article was about 1838-O halves in general, with specific mention of the Eliasberg 1838-O half as it was then coming up for auction a few days after my… -
Re: Is this die deterioration or something else? <----Look an actual coin question! :D
I'd bet the three fell heads up onto the bottom of the collection container where the coins are kicked out of the exact same dies. The obverse sides then took repeated hits from other coins falling on top of them while the reverse was protected face down. -
Re: How will Mr. Moy be remembered by collectors in the future?
I'm a collector and I will always remember Mr Moy as the USM Director from Wisconsin who knows the person(s) responsible for tampering with the WI Quarter dies at the die shop in the Fall of 2004 but won't disclose the info. to us in the hobby. Way to go, Mr.Coy !! -
Re: New Baby Picture!
I think its STUNNING~ Ill take that coin anyday over a DCAM Kennedy Half Dollar. ....or any such analogy. Take a good close look at that piece, notice carefully the planchet fields in the area near the O in Auctori. See how it laminates down, and then the O is actually very well formed on TOP of the overall planchet… -
Re: Most Popular Half Dollar Series
Great thread indeed! Now, as to my one-time friend @Catbert and his assertation that Seated Lib's are a "sophisticated" man's game, compared to the "odd bunch" of us Capped Bust collectors ... well he is probably correct I suppose ... although have any of you actually met @Catbert ? While I can easily subscribe to the "odd…
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