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Re: The exciting 1861 Paquet Reverse Twenty Dollar Liberties Again in the News
Zoins: Why the Philadelphia pieces are so pristine and show no evidence of production problems encountered? ... Why there are so few Philadelphia pieces? It may be true that the "production problems" slowed down the process rather than adversely affecting each coin struck. While it may have been predicted that dies would… -
Re: 1861-S Paquet in the Saddle Ridge Hoard? UPDATE - Status of 1.2 million dollar coin
"My real question about this is who could basically afford to bury the modern-day equivalent of 1/2 a million bucks and not ever have to come back for it, nor would their descendants/inheritors notice it missing? That's quite a lot of dough" Well here is one answer that follows from combining two of the clues (the… -
Re: For you error collectors : 1968-S & S 1c Totally Separated New RPM!!!
Interesting to know you're around, Sean. I didn't know who you were or what your position was. Something I find to be a bit confusing is that the information gathered from people's variety submissions seems to fall into a dark hole never to be seen in print....unless you happen to be a card carrying CONECA or NCADD member… -
New trend in auctions? Investor/ collector
I was bored last night (forums were slow) and started looking at some recent Heritage auction books that were laying around the house. In the front of the books they give you a little snippet of the collector, who they were, when this happened and so on. I noticed quite a few of the auctions were sets put together in spans… -
The difficult and forgotten ART of grading by surface...
As we all know, strike quality varies amongst coinage. Some issues have weak strikes, some coins are struck from poorly designed dies, which do not allow full expansion of the metal into the design. While Uncirculated is always Uncirculated, or Mint state, the design on the piece itself, if it is from a coin that has… -
Grading and the double bell curve.
There's probably little truth in the obvious supposition that the production of coins by the mint will always result in the coins falling on a bell curve of grade or quality. It may well be true that if grading is broken down into its constituent parts that there will tend to be some bell curves with some of these well… -
Albert Einstein said ...
..., "The important thing is not to stop questioning." Also ... A derivative of Ockham's razor is, "Of two or more equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred." I would like to offer a presentation involving the 2004-D Wisconsin "High Leaf" and "Low Leaf" states… -
Re: Which coins historically have been used in coin-operated machines?
I remember slugs you could find at construction sites that would mimic quarters and some people would use them in machines. In time the machines got more and more accurate in differentiating real from fake or inappropriate coins. Here's a quick overview: "Coin-operated machines identify coins through a combination of… -
Re: Do you think it is wrong to buy from the parking lot?
I did meet a buyer a few years back in a Dallas parking lot and sold him a few slabbed proof liberty v-nickels, but i have noticed that you do not run across many guys selling a slabbed 1893 s morgan dollar in a coin store parking lot. Most of the time you will just run across low grade coins or bullion in the parking lot… -
Re: Numismatic Terminology --- Type vs Variety
The Guide Book also still lists Mott Tokens in the colonials section, although the accompanying text has changed over the years. Inertia of terminology and the fact that you can't unprint a book likely comes into play with respect to the Guide Book. Regarding types and varieties, for me, an intentional composition change…
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