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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: 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: 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… -
Re: Canada 1948 Dollar, It had to happen..."best sample" I have seen so far
Thanks for all of you participating for the benefit of other readers !948 fakes: not all have the thick 4 some have the thick 4 and partly thick 8, others have different markers issues like the 4 diagonal line being straight leading from noon to about 7, but has a slight curve others have ear and nose problems and numerous… -
Re: Is there any contemporary evidence that George Washington...
BillJones and others believing Breen, Taxay, and other earlier writings that they copied from - Oh, that I wish you have read the article in the 2003 COAC book by Joel Orosz. He explains the twisted misinformation about these interesting pieces. It was not Jonas McClintock, and there was no special room set aside for Adam… -
Re: CONTURSI SELLS THE 1794 $1 FOR ALMOST $8 MILLION!
Thanks everyone! It really in an incredible coin, one that I am very pleased and honored to be associated with. << <i> << <i>Amazing how so few facts are turned into such an elaborate story. Still, it's an amazing example of the first silver dollars. >> Well said. >> Like many coin stories, much has been said about this… -
Re: Over $15k already on a re-engraved coin!!! 1861-D G$1
It depends upon what you call, "a long history," and how much may have been covered up in the auction descriptions of years gone by. My experience is mostly limited to the coin magazines I read in the 1960s, the auction catalogs I reviewed in the '70s and '80s and what I saw at the coin stores and shows during the same… -
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…
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