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Does the following description make any sense?
Here's the link! And here's the description; Nice luster and well struck from what appear to be late state dies, rough slightly golden surfaces and low relief on Monticello. Right off, I'll tell you that I don't agree with it. What would a weakly struck coin look like from what appear to be late state dies How can anyone… -
Re: Post your comments on these 1898 Half Dollars: COUNTERFEIT & REAL
Yes, a contemorary counterfeit from false dies. The dies were made from scratch! The star positions and the depth of the LIBERTY give it away. The coin is struck on good silver and has a very good clear ring. The wear pattern on it look very normal, not like it was artificially worn down. At the time the price of silver… -
Re: Baseball Sliding Quarterbacks
i was about to make a joke about the way jim would do the wobble topple fall but ive just learned he tragically died in a fall a few years back art imitates life............. in this case it predicted the future -
Re: Error people - got this in change today...
Roger and the other folks who've diagnosed it as a "die trial" may be correct. I find that state quarters that are weakly struck may nevertheless show a quite respectable rim. Evidently there is relatively little convexity at the periphery of the die face in most state quarter designs. This, combined with a high upset rim… -
Re: First Strike/early release hype on the 100th anniversary Mercury
Originally posted by: mariner67 Originally posted by: JCLIGHTBRIGADE Here's a question, Is this a true statement, when used in a listing selling a pcgs First strike coin? " First strike coins are produced using the first dies forged by the mint in a particular series. Use of these first dies typically results in a higher… -
Re: Raw gold challenge
I'm guessing this coin was struck with a set of transfer dies made from a genuine coin having the die crack or crease on the reverse. Even contact marks on a genuine coin can be transferred to a set of false dies and to the counterfeits made from them. -
Re: Cherrypickin' SCORE !!!!!
The diagnostics for the 104 are a "small thin mintmark"......... The size/style of the MM aren"t obvious in the picture, but if you know that there were only 4 reverse dies used for 1864-S halves, and you have pics or examples of WB101, WB102, and WB103 in hand, you immediately know it isn't WB101 (That one has a much… -
Re: The very rare 1964 SMS in PCGS 67RD (Pop:5/2) offered on the Bay - not mine!
i agree with tim in alot of his address here...they per se are...specimen strikes <<<What is next, with the Kennedy half dollars, there are several years when the coins were struck on quarter planchets, or have rotated dies, are these going to be required in the complete variety sets as well? >>> the above stated though… -
Re: What city would be the best candidate for finding key date coins with a metal detector?
As the story goes; In 1893 the Seminole Bank was robbed by a gang of Outlaws. Seminole, Okla. is 10 miles south of Keokuk Falls. The Outlaws got away with a chest of $20 Liberty Gold peices. The Marshall formed a posse and killed all of the robbers except for one who had the chest of gold. When the posse made it into the… -
Re: 1943-D copper cent on ebay - what makes it fake?
Key date US coins including 1943 copper cents are currently being struck in China. Since 1943 cents are steel, they can be hardened and then used as hubs to create false dies.
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