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Re: Check out this cool Oregon territorial pattern...before it hits page 70. :D
WOW the ten $ are rare to boot. BTW _ If you like the Oregon territorial stuff, I was doing some research on some Oregon territorial bonds I own and came across a document that says that the dies to strike these were given to the Secretary of State of the Territory along with 1 each of the $5 and $10 coins. The state of… -
Re: Show Us Your Lucky Penny
Created approx 2013 by master counterfeiters using genuine and often repaired source coins to create the false dies. This one is apparently struck over an (1843) petite head large cent, probably in a lot of culls. Just theorizing, but the smaller diameter of the 1843 relative to 1796 die could allow for a slight off-center… -
Re: Great boxing photos
And we have to give a shout-out to Jack Pierce, the legendary Hollywood make-up artist who turned men in monsters. It's interesting, Lon Chaney actually hated the make-up process and gave Jack Pierce all kinds of hell about it. The ‘sadistic’ makeup master who made The Wolf Man and Frankenstein – and died in obscurity Jack… -
Re: Card of the Day
61 year old card with Norman Saunders' depiction of the events from 160 years ago today, July 3. Down in Gettysburg Saw them fall Bloody Gettysburg Took them all Waited for the word... Never came Retreat from Gettysburg I've seen a lot of wicked things Heard a lot of people cry I know it couldn't touch the pain Of seeing… -
Re: 1861 Clark Gruber $20 Overstrikes and Jack Leon Klausen
All of the 1861 CG $20 "Fantasy" pieces are from the the same false dies used to strike the more commonly seen semi-PL fake non-overstrikes. And the overstrikes all seem to have provenances that originate with a California dealer, whom I believe was active from the 1950's or 60's until his death perhaps a decade ago. -
Re: Just an impression but is there declining interest and premiums for First Strike coins?
I agree... a bit. In the past, some dies would produce a few spectacular coins and then the quality would drop off immensely (think deep cameo Franklins, DMPL Morgans). The first strike from a set of dies on those could really be something special, but you can also identify them by the fact that they look like they do.… -
Re: Coin World Exposes the Fraud that is "First Strike"
It's as simple as this. The very first coin struck from the very first set of dies is the one and only "First Strike". That particular coin, no matter what it's price, value, or significance given falls under the realm of the Coin Hobby. Any coin after that given the First Strike designation is nothing more than a bunch of… -
Re: Another Reason for Weak Strikes
<< <i> << <i>I'm curious if the San Francisco Mint also carried out the proof die preparation for Ikes? >> A lot of the plating and polishing of our proof dies is done by the Royal Canadian Mint. They have been chrome plating their dies since at least the mid 1950's and they nave a lot of experience with it. Whether or not… -
Indiana Primitives - Henry Higgins and His Copy Dies
Henry Higgins was jack of many trades who made Civil War tokens. He also made eye glasses, weather barometers, guns, jewelry, and false teeth. Higgins issued merchant tokens for his business, and he made tokens for other merchants as well. He also made Patriotic tokens which cannot be attributed to any specific merchant.… -
Re: 1995 penny struck on dime -PICS ADDED-first post-Mint product or fake?
You guys can not authenticate this coin from that pic. Some really convincing counterfeit errors have been created by overstriking real coins with high quality false dies. John Devine's counterfeit detection books have some really good pics of these coins. While this coin is probably real, it needs to be authenticated by…
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