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Re: Finally, my Proof Dollar Olympic die set is complete
I picked up a 1995 W Proof Reverse die which 39 were issued. My die serial number is W5 630138. Mitchell, I am curious if your same die serial number falls between W5 630100 to W5 630138, which would equal the 39 sequentially numbered dies. Thank You ! -
Re: Exonumia: a guide to Lord Marcovan custom elongated coins
"These are my own custom elongated coins. I had the dies made and coins rolled out by Cindy Calhoun of "Cindy's Cents", who is president of TEC (The Elongated Collectors)." just to add Cindy is A warm generous person with a very extensive Elongated Cent collection and I always look forward to seeing her at the fall PAN… -
Re: Describe a coin that may not exist, that realistically could exist, and that you would love to own..
The dies for the 1869-CC dollar were shipped and received in Carson City in the fall. However, the personnel were not all in place to begin coining. The mint Director, Abe Curry, sent them back. However, the machinery was up and running and I would suspect that some trial pieces were struck. None have shown their face,… -
Re: What causes these marks
OK, let's think about this together. Look at the coin. The raised design is sunken into the die. The highest part of the design is the deepest part of the die. Some-ting-wong? And why would so many of these coins have these marks in the same location? Seems there are lots of screws falling on to the Obverse dies of lots of… -
Re: Die variety for the 1915 Pan-Pac dollar?
At that time (and actually up until 1990) mintmarks were punched into each individual die for all non-proof coinage. Since your beautiful dollar falls in that category, it would be one on which mintmarks were hand punched into the dies. You don't have a variety, you have proof there was more than one die involved in their… -
Re: For all buffalo nickel collectors, Try grading this 1936 buffalo nickel!.
I saw the coin yesterday. It has the satin surfaces, absolutely no sign of clashing, and the edges are mirrorlike but the strike is deficient (88% of the satin proofs fall just short of full strike status.) I'm sure that proof dies were used to strike circulation coins which might explain the surfaces but that wouldn't… -
Re: BU Roll Market Perking Up.
No. I'm writing on several subjects and it is translating within each and between them. While less true aboutr the coin posts Wow. That barely took four hours in the middle of the night! Maybe you don't understand the nature of an LLM. These things are parsing language and reflecting the promptor. Essentially the LLM's… -
Re: 20th Anniversary Silver set and Jefferson Spouse prices - Is the market soft now?
The good thing about the Spouse program is that even if it falls off in popularity it still has four times a year for the next 10 years to fire up again in the market which will continually cast interest in the older issues for those who want a complete set. The problem with the typical commemorative coins is that they… -
Re: Question for Large Cent experts
There are other coins and series with clashmarks that far off so this isn't unique. What is odd is that this variety comes in an earlier state without the clashmarks so it wasn't something that happened when they first set up the press. I suspect the set screw came loose and the obv die did fall out and the dies clashed.… -
Re: In GOLD We Trust! - Post Your Favorite $20 Gold Liberty Double Eagles - (Types 1, 2 & 3)
FWIW, it appears that the above referenced Paris Specimen may have been sourced from a special set that was minted in the fall of 1850 while the 1850 Double Eagle in my collection was struck from the first dies earlier in 1850. Numismatic author and researcher Karl Moulton noted as to the 1870 Longacre Estate auction…
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