Mohawk

On 2/2/2022 at 10:36 PM, JKK said:

Funnier: it was in the car and my mother was driving. She had been mother-henning Paula about having enough money to go shopping. Her response was her head on a swivel and asking: "You do WHAT?" She then went into a splutter about not knowing how they did things in Finland (like most religious fanatics, my mother is deeply ignorant; one of her first questions to Paula was whether Finns were related to Russians...good lord), but that they needed to have a talk before Paula went anywhere. No idea what would have happened if I hadn't been riding along in back, having realized early on that Finnish native speakers have terrible trouble with our consonant blends and some other sounds. For example, Paula would say she spoke Feeneess, Svediss, Zerman, and Engleess. She called me "Zahn," as close as she could get to "John." So I was able to disassemble the problem without too much delay, cackling as I did so.

Oh man.....poor Paula!! I'm so happy for her that you were there to help her out!  It must have been so cool to have someone from another country staying with you.....what an experience!!! And that Finns-Russians question your mom asked......that must have gone over great, given the history that the Finns have with the Russians .  

On 2/2/2022 at 10:06 PM, JKK said:

I'm reminded of when our Finnish exchange student said to my mother, "Oh. I have sex for money." My mother is a religious fanatic, and you can imagine her reaction. Finally the family language junkie, who had analyzed her accent patterns, held up a checkbook. "Checks, right?" "Yes. Sex." Then we told her what she'd been saying. She immediately colored like a second-degree sunburn.

Oh man, that's just AMAZING!! That poor exchange student.....I can't even imagine what a religious fanatic would say to that.  Oh, to have been a fly on the wall that day at your house.....

On 2/2/2022 at 9:44 PM, RWB said:

Yeah. I remember being having to look twice when I got my 1969 proof sets. The improvement was remarkable.

They need to do something about the obverse of the Shield cents now.  That obverse looks really flat and lifeless, IMHO.  I can see how they tried to improve it from the 1990's style obverse, but it really isn't much of an improvement.  My fiancée and I had lunch with my dad last week and he isn't even a collector and he commented on how unappealing the Shield cents are.  

On 2/2/2022 at 9:38 PM, RWB said:

Compare your coins with a 1909 or 1910 Lincoln, and notice how much the master die has deteriorated over time. The compare with a 1968 example for even more "mush."

1968's are easily the worst looking Lincolns.  Even the proofs look bad.  It's quite interesting to put a 1968 and a 1969 Lincoln Cent side by side.....what a difference a new master die can make!

Hi Woods,

Sorry it took me 400 years to check out your site, but it looks good.  Very professional.  It's easy to navigate, it has good photos and the links and pages all work correctly.  I think you're going to make some U.S. collectors quite happy with your offerings.  Best of luck to you!

On 2/2/2022 at 9:28 PM, Hinkle said:

Thanks Tom, just happen to stumble across these. I was looking for the shadow D RPM but no luck there either. O well back to hunting. 

That's the spirit!!! Get back out there and keep searching.  I hope you find that shadow D.  You deserve it.

Hi Joe!!

Those are some pretty cool examples of what can happen with overzealous die polishing, as Greenstang said.  But they're pretty cool to look at, I have to say.

Thanks for sharing those!

On 2/2/2022 at 7:20 PM, tj96 said:

I just wish new members would put the date, denomination and brief description of the issue in the subject line. 

Post fill pictures of the Obv. and Rev, then zoom in on the area in question.    

All good points, TJ, and good advice for Deana to follow going forward.

On 2/2/2022 at 6:00 PM, Deana2874 said:

I'm really new to this and not even sure were to look at pictures of good double dies without watching hours of youtube lol.

Hi Deana.

First off, welcome to the forum and hello!  And I'm with Jonathan....I don't see any evidence of doubling on your coin, either.  Jonathan gave you a great resource with the article by Mr. Lange.  I just wanted to add a couple more links for you that have good information on doubled dies and other errors and varieties.  The first is our hosts' Variety Plus page:

https://www.ngccoin.com/variety-plus/

Secondly, Error-Ref is a great resource as well:

https://www.error-ref.com/

Variety Vista also has a listing of many U.S. coin varieties and some good photos of them:

http://varietyvista.com/

And the last is Wexler's Die Varieties:

http://doubleddie.com/

Also, since you mentioned YouTube, I want to cover that with you as well.  YouTube is probably the worst place on the entire Internet to get coin information.  There are a lot of people on there who post coin videos that are full of outright lies, half truths and sensationalist misinformation that will steer you wrong about coins every time.  These people are looking to create click bait, so that they get more views on their videos.  So, unless a coin video on YouTube is posted by a reputable numismatic organization, such as NGC, ANACS, PCGS, the ANA or the PNG, do not even waste your time with it.  Joining this forum was a great step....there is a lot of experience and information here, and most of us are willing to do anything we can to help a new collector out.

On 2/1/2022 at 4:26 AM, l.cutler said:

I watched the video and it has nothing whatsoever to do with your coins.  Just because one Eisenhower dollar is valuable doesn't mean they all are.  Honestly, if you can't get this, then collecting coins is just not for you.

I'm with the others....definite fake.

On 2/1/2022 at 11:02 PM, Just Bob said:

There is absolutely no reason for you to apologize about bringing up this coin. This just happens to be one of those issues we get frequent questions about, so sometimes our answers tend to be direct and without sugar-coating. No offense was intended on my part, and I am sure, no one else's either. I was just trying to make sure I got my point across. No doubt Mohawk and the others were, as well.

Welcome to the forum.

Bob, you're absolutely correct.  This thread just started like way too many that raised the red flags I addressed in my answer.  To the OP.....being new, there was no way you could have possibly known that.  We get some problematic posters around here fairly regularly, and as Bob said, we're not ones to really sugar coat things.  If you're looking to learn about coins and learn how to be a coin collector, then we'd be only too glad to help out.  There were just a few things that I felt we needed to get out of the way, so I brought them up so we could get them out of the way and proceed.

I like it, James!! I have to find a good box....I want to get more German proof sets, but storage has been an issue.  Maybe I can find something that would work well.  Right now, the two I do have are on one of our bookshelves (lots of books in our apartment, for sure).  They need something better, though.

On 1/31/2022 at 1:02 PM, Coinbuf said:

There were 7 different variations of the Lincoln cent made in 1982, some were copper that weigh 3.11 grams and some that are the current zinc center with copper cladding which weigh 2.5 grams.   There were a few just a small handful of copper blanks that were struck using the dies for the new zinc cent, those 3 or 4 known coins are what everyone is told they can find and get rich off.

I'm sorry to say that your chance of winning the lottery while simultaneously wrestling an alligator in Death Valley is better than the chance of finding another of those coins.   No one knows for sure how those few came to be, one theory is that some left over copper blanks were stuck in a tote and got mixed in with the new zinc blanks.   It is as good a theory as any, but we will never know for sure why, what we do know is that it is more than just unlikely that you will ever find one in your sock drawer.

We get this question here on this forum almost week, many times multiple times a day, and never has anyone had the magic bullet.

But we are happy to help so please do post your coins and we can help to identify them for you.

If we're talking the 1982-D Copper Small Date cent, here's something for the OP to consider.  There are two of those coins known to exist 40 years after they were struck.  By contrast, there are 32 reasonably complete adult skeletons of Tyrannosaurus Rex known to exist 66 million years after they went extinct in the Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction Event.  Making this a sheer numbers game, you have better odds of finding a 33rd reasonably complete adult Tyrannosaurus Rex than you do of finding a third 1982-D Copper Small Date cent.

On 2/1/2022 at 5:28 PM, Rummy13 said:

 

I guess I will have to go around to the cigar shops and try to find them. I keep them in a big boot box with a lot of desicant packs now.  The one box holds from 1956 to 2008. Now I'm working one a new box. To bad there is no way to really display them all. same with the Mint sets. If you ever watched Mike on HSN, then you know how much space is needed. He is always trying to get people to buy the 1967 - 2008 sets for some outrages price.

Seriously outrageous prices.  You can have the first 42 years of San Francisco minted U.S. Proof Sets for the low, low price of $1,199.95 and $20.47 shipping and handling:

https://www.hsn.com/products/first-42-years-of-s-mint-proof-sets-1968-2009/7374406

Hello Jovany,

I do not speak Spanish, so I apologize for not being able to respond to you in Spanish.  However, I'm with Hoopster.....your coin shows mechanical or machine doubling.  Doubling of this type is extremely common and does not add any value or collectability to a coin.

I'm with the others....I do not think it's an actual mint error.  I believe that whatever happened to your coin happened after it left the mint.

I got another great deal on a nice, cute little pfennig tonight.  These are the seller's pics:

On 1/31/2022 at 11:46 PM, Coinbuf said:

It has been plated, that accounts for the mushy look of the coin, the extra weight, and the ability to be attracted to a magnet.

I agree.  From the color and the magnetism, I'm going to guess nickel plated.

Man, TJ....you're just nailing the storage solutions lately!!! That looks awesome for some of those little ANACS slabs.  I don't have a lot of them, but sometimes you see some nice East and West German coins in them, so you never know.  If I do get some more, I know what kind of box to get now.  Thanks!!!