RWB

New ANA Slogan: "Delivering less every year!" Or maybe "Out of Touch, Out of Mind"

If FedEx doesn't deliver a package to Debnam, Iowa for 2 years, Debnam does not vanish. If the post office closes, the town becomes just another bump in the road.

Nope, again.

Cleaning, light rubbing with a cloth or polishing material.

The pattern and experimental information on RAC 1905-1908 is more extensive than the SG book or referenced article .

Cleaning is often more distinguishable on the highest points and the fields - except close to protected areas near lettering or relief. Sliding across a surface will affect the highest relief and the rim the most, and very little on the fields.

This is a great article and a good website with lots of stuff from RWB: https://uspatterns.stores.yahoo.net/mcmviehrdoub.html Thanks! Had forgotten about that.

Nope to both. Keep digging.

The Postal Service, by whatever name it is called, is a part of national communication as much as airlines, radio, TV, telephone, highways, electricity and so forth. USPS is obligated to maintain and staff thousands of small, rural offices, and deliver virtually anywhere in the country. No private corporation has this obligation and none would show a profit if they had to do this. Thousands of tiny villages have post offices because they are part of the communications glue that binds people to neighbors, friends and families far away. FedEx will not stop by your home every day (except Sunday) to see if you might, perchance, have a letter to mail; or if there might be a package of medication shipped from a thousand miles away to be delivered. USPS is in a difficult financial position, but privatizing it - as the current idiotic Postmaster General wants to do - is merely a greedy way to isolate rural Americans. Privatization places profit before national connection and value to the public, and is fundamentally counter to America's democratic values.

Take it to the folks who run your state electric utility -- they're real smart; they will surely know. PS: The "coin" is counterfeit. Examine the inscriptions and date compared to an authentic 1944 cent.

There are no "1964 Special Mint Sets" except in the warped greed of some who cannot understand that coins off new dies look a little different than "normal" coins.

Here's another engraver quiz question. Which member of the US Mint Engraving Department spent their career making foliage and logos, yet was Acting Engraver on many occasions?

A much recommended book if you want to get the flavor of real-world coin collecting.It's about what the ordinary person did and used and enjoyed without a big budget and with a great deal of pleasure. It's about the opposite of boasts, big egos and greed in the hobby; this is the part of our hobby that preserved all the AU and lower grade coins that now populate the real heart of numismatics. RWB

Ahhhh, so your package was located and delivered to NGC, or at least on the road to Bradenton, Fl. That's good.

Value will depend as much on marks and scrapes as anything else; also, if the stains are permanent. From the last photos maybe EF50 or better.

Schuler installation began in 1969, but I don't have the sequence or denominations used at various times. Doesn't matter as press feeder fingers cause minor scratches. They were not strong enough to mutilate a coin.

Cleveland.

Just coincidence. Convenience store parking areas are good places to look for damaged cents, nickels and dimes. Think of them as "coin roadkill." As the buying power of small denominations decreases, customers are less likely to notice the occasional dropped coin or to bother to pick it up. Convenience stores remain large users of cash while many other businesses are rapidly moving to cashless transactions.

Damage to your dime was produced external to the US Mint in Denver. Modern Schuler MRH coin presses do not use "feeder fingers" like the old Ulhorn-type toggle presses.

Maybe Whitman would print a bunch of your detailed list and stuff them in the CPG....?

Heck, I thought it meant shredded wood 'spaghetti' that was used for packing stuff.

"Blink" ? Likely depends a lot on what kind (genre) of coin it is. NCLT stuff has almost no "grading" time, so it's throughput is mostly packaging and shipment to the Televangelist crooks.

Larger shows designate a book/supply seller. That prevents anyone else from doing the same. Makes sense due to the required space and feeble margins. I examined the self-seller approach early on, but the cost of space, travel, etc., was far greater than any reasonably anticipated sales. Also, I wouldn't be able to use the bathroom for 3 days.....! When speaking at a state show, I've sometimes taken some books, but the sales are very small - 10 or 12 copies. Coin collectors are rarely oriented toward that -- they want to handle coins and medals. I agree that it would be nice if sellers of DE had a copy of my book on their tables for collector reference. Not going to happen. The space is too costly.

Check the toes....

JUDGE: The witness will be slowly impaled for obfuscation.