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Re: Oh boy what did I find!
This is not an obviously PMD coin and I am again surprised at the quick condemnation by this forum of such a coin. Only one of the six people that condemned it have even given any explanation why they think the way they do. Coins like this need to be given the benefit of the doubt, so that they don’t get thrown away or… -
Re: False rarity realizes $132K in Heritage auction, while true rarity goes unnoticed
I love the Gob$ as well BUT they too are patterns IMO. As are the rolled $10. False rarities, created rarities, fantasy raritites, etc. should not be included in the registries as regular strikes. They should have a pattern registry. Call me a purist but I can only get excited about coins that were made for circulation and… -
Sad News - Pete "DaNutt" Bishal
Frank Leone, quoted from the CONECA home page. This was also reported to a couple of mailing lists by Rich Schemmer, who was in attendance at this show: << <i>October 12, 2003 -- Pete "DaNutt" Bishal passed away on the morning of October 12th, 2003. Pete was attending the WESPNEX coin show in New York and died from an… -
Re: Most sought error type?
<< <i> << <i> << <i> << <i> << <i>Probably the doubled die. . . >> A doubled die is not an error...it is a variety. >> Actually, its both unless the mint purposely made the die with doubling. >> The die itself IS a mint error...if you can talk the mint out of the cancelled die then and only then would you have an example… -
Re: Third Side of a coin-1809 O-107a CBH
The edge lettering of Bust Half Dollars was applied to the blank planchet via the Castaing Machine before the coin was struck. The Castaing Machine had 2 long rectangular bars (called edge dies) spaced apart. The distance was slightly less than the standard diameter of the blank planchet. On the standard set of edge dies… -
Re: When a PCGS 1972 "Doubled Die" really isn't... (photos)
<< <i>NONE of the doubled dies are "mint errors." PCGS should learn this and update the way they do things. >> Chuck, It is interesting how different collectors have different interpretations as to what is a mint error and what is a mint variety. I have my own. I believe a mint variety is a coin in which the mint INTENDED… -
Re: Survival stories
I recall a few such stories. One is the story of a Japanese solider who was stationed on a remote island in the Pacific at the close of WWII. He remained on the island refusing to surrender for about 30 years after the war ended. He did not believe the war had ended and he continue to perform his duty (by avoiding contact… -
Re: Pattern Elizabeth II Halfcrown, Obverse.
This is OBVERSE 1, check esp "I" of DEI to space but also "I" of Elizabeth to space and NOT to just right of bead. It does not have the BRITT OMNI legend but the bust appears to match the 1953 1/2 crown. Also you are wrong about being struck together with another coins, that would be entirely false and would rely on the… -
Re: Very interesting Double-struck 1965 Washington Quarter on Ebay
<< <i> It is a fake error produced with false dies. Take a normal coin, squeeze it in a bench vise between two strips of aluminum to create impressions that look like dies, move the coin relative to the impressions and squeeze again. Some of the coin will form up into the impressions like a second strike, though there is… -
Re: I believe the hobby has lost a dedicated collector...
"...That's the unnerving part for me. It's easy to say "he died doing what he loved", but I doubt he loved being trapped in the deep snow until exposure took him after surviving a free fall. ..." //////////////////////////////////////////// The Coast Guard and other rescue workers have "serious doubts" that he survived the…
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