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Re: Randy Johnson will be the final 300 game winner
I think you're using Nolan Ryan pretty selectively as an example there. He was a unicorn... Most pitchers who threw as hard as he did didn't last very long. That's the nature of modern baseball when you look at velocities. Average fastball velocity in 2025 is 94.0 MPH. Outcomes are the closest thing we have to facts... if… -
1921 Vam 75a with broken planchet?
Im almost certain it is a VAM 75A but it is a reall late die state. These dies are about to fall apart. There a ton of craks and breaks that don't show up in the pics. I was looking through the junk box and almost passed it over because of what I thought to be damage. But on closer inspection it looked to be a broken… -
Re: BEAUTIFUL TRIPLE STRUCK LINCOLN
errormaven - Please explain, in layman's terms, a saddle strike to us. Double strike - The partial second strike obliterates the original image beneath it, but the rest of the first strike is undistorted, except in the immediate vicinity of the second strike. A saddle strike is generally not a true double strike, but… -
Re: Are the numeral sizes on all dates of draped bust half cents so non-uniform?
PipestonePete May 11, 2009 I was photographing the coins in my Dansco type-set and noticed that the last two digits on my 1806 Draped Bust half cent are considerably larger than the first two. Is this a characteristic of all the Draped Bust half cents? It was often the case in 19th century mints (not just the U.S.) that… -
Re: So who wins Manager of the Year?
A nice quote from the OC Registers writer Sam Miller. April 9, 2009. A few days after Nick Adenhart died, the Angels called up Reggie Willits. Willits wasn't the obvious choice from a strategic view, but as a veteran who had made the trip from Salt Lake many times before, he was perhaps the one player who could carry the… -
Re: 1990 NO S PROOF LINCOLN CENT
"I think of the No S as a die variety, rather than an error. The omission was in the creating of that die. I tend to think of errors as things that go wrong in the striking process, and not in the preparation of the dies." i agree fully with doug on this many varieties in the lincoln series out shadow the no s 1990 proof i… -
Re: Major Errors on State Quarters .... Thread
mkman ..... not quite sure what your talking about. Do you mean something like a dime or dime planchet falling on top of a quarter planchet and then struck by the dies. I have never seen it on SHQ's. I have seen a few examples of this type of error, but these are one of the rarest error types and extremely expensive. cars… -
A few interesting things came in the mail today
Here's a great example of using the dies just to dang long Check out the cheap watches!! brass Last one is women's Christian temperance union medal Copper(I think) Link In many towns in Ohio and New York in the fall of 1873 women concerned about the destructive power of alcohol met in churches to pray and then marched to… -
Re: Cool Error Lincoln , Struck thru broken Capped Die ??
<< <i>The coin is brockaged from struck fragments of metal which had adhered to the obverse and reverse dies. The obverse fragment was struck, stuck to the obverse die, and then was struck again into the surface of this coin (notice the design of the brockaged area is exactly opposite the design on the coin's reverse.) The… -
Rotated Die - 2002-P Tennesse Quarter. What's the next step?
Well, I was falling asleep over a roll of quarters the other day and then this showed up. It took a bit to realize what I had, but it sure looks like the real deal to me. I've done some research, and a number of sources indicate that rotated dies of 90% or greater are when the values start to get interesting. Per an…
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