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66 degrees today in Sarasota, down from 80 yesterday.

Excellent piece, Roger.

GF, It's time to broaden your horizons...

I believe it was located underneath an escalator. My book about Library of Coins albums covers the subject in some depth, since the publisher of those albums was also the operator of the many department store stamp and coin franchises.

Die markers are unnecessary to the trained eye. The coins illustrated lack the strike and texture of the proofs.

Same company, but almost certainly later owners. There are very few coin dealers still active since 1968.

Wow, that is a big loss. Few people knew as much about medals as he did.

The photo is a bit blurred, but that appears to be a completely normal cent.

That's not an RPM. It's the product of strike doubling or, more likely, circulation damage.

As you can tell from my avatar I am an enthusiast of coin boards. The ones you have are common and not worth a lot, but it's still fun to see them "in the wild."

I've seen a number of messages about ways to store certified coins without getting the holders scuffed through contact with one another. While the plastic boxes put out by the grading services work well in this regard, they don't always accommodate all brands. When I need to mix brands and get a lot of slabs in a compact space I use an Intercept Shield box with playing cards inserted between the slabs. I can't guarantee that the cards don't put out some kind of contaminant, but I've had no problems thus far.

That listing is not for the ASE but for the commemorative medal. That's why it's not listed with the ASEs. The coin will be posted when the certified population is released. There's always a delay on that until a meaningful number has been completed.

In response to a Freedom of Information request the U. S. Mint recently published a list of which mints coined the ASE in each year. This list was used to update Explorer's listings.

Designation Review has been discontinued.

NGC's Coin Explorer lists the mint at which they were made: https://www.ngccoin.com/coin-explorer/silver-eagles-1986-date-pscid-203/1986-eagle-s1-ms-coinid-710001

A Philadelphia Mint dime was inadvertently inserted into the Denver portion of the set. It is a packaging error and of some interest as such. As Moxie 15 suggested, leave the envelope sealed.

The collecting of early United States coins by die marriages has been in decline for a number of years, due both to the high cost of even a single coin and to a greater emphasis on grade. So many varieties are not available in anything but worn and/or damaged condition that newer collectors often pass on pursuing the rare coins in favor of a single type coin in nice condition.

Yes, severe die erosion rather than clashed dies.

The value will most likely be determined through an auction sale, as there are no value guides for early dollars by varieties. Another of the four known examples is being sold at auction this week, so that will provide some recent data.

Mint errors don't appear within the Census, because their descriptions vary according to the individual coins. The Census requires standardization in descriptions.

Collectors who have come to the hobby via modern mint collector issues that are essentially perfect and exactly alike may be unaware how irregular older coins are in these small details, even those struck as proofs prior to the 1980s. It results in a lot of coins being submitted to NGC as varieties or mint errors that fall well within the limits of normal for the issue.

Yes, 101 just means that this was line 101 in the submission. The other coins may have been other errors or just regular coins. NGC no longer permits more than 50 coins under a single invoice number, so that will be the highest line number going forward.

The five-centavos piece was reduced in diameter and made thicker in 1930 to distinguish it from the 20-centavos. Their previously similar dimensions offered the potential for confusing the two, and the fives remained thick thereafter.

I won't say for certain that the 1914-D is an outright counterfeit, but certainly the mintmark is the wrong style and size, so it may be a genuine 1914(P) cent with an added mintmark. Here's how the real thing looks:

There are no RPMs on United States coins after 1990, because the mintmarks have been included in the master dies for each mint since that time. Any doubling on the mintmark would be the result of a DDO, but the photos are too blurry to determine that.