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RWB

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  1. RWB
    They already do --- they call it "MS-62" regardless of the size of truck that ran over it.
  2. RWB
    Both are post strike damage -- at least from the photos.
  3. RWB
    Damage and corrosion. Nothing more. Can you (the OP) explain what a "double died and punched" coin is? Can you tell us how mintmarks are made?
  4. RWB
    We are already in an age-related redistribution of collector coins (and kegs of wheat cents, etc.). Children born 1935-1950, who collected coins, are now dying at an accelerating rate. Without a specific, previously unidentified source, the "hoard" is merely part of statistical randomness. (Humans are sensitive to pattern making - it is one way we organize the world. Pareidolia is one kind of the same class of human organizational actions.)
  5. RWB
    No. And identification does not matter. The altered ASEs look like the real thing -- just as an 1909 with glued on S does.
  6. RWB
    Might also be something made by a colorado counterfeiter. It produced altered ASEs in the past, so why not again?
  7. RWB
    Well --- not really -- I skipped around a bunch and yawned some, too.
  8. RWB
    It seems a bit too long and unfocused. There are also several mistakes, misdirections and loose-ends, but that happens with this sort of promotional item.
  9. RWB
    Better if that was a "run-away sentence" .....
  10. RWB
    The OP must have purchased a "Word Grab-Bag" from a U-Tube coin error video.
  11. RWB
    Is he telling facts that he knows, or simply spinning a story abut some assumed "stealthy hoard?" His price changes can be checked for reality, but not his "reasons" for them....if he has any.
  12. RWB
    Damaged in both posts....
  13. RWB
    Now think....why would such a "nice" coin not be in a legitimate TPG holder with a cute smiley-face sticker? The contrast has been exaggerated so the fields look black and relief almost white - not normal for a coin of that era, except for a few carefully maintained pieces.
  14. RWB
    Was the US occasionally shipping US coins to Mexico? This letter seems to imply that....
  15. RWB
    Italian States LUCCA Scudo KM# 60. 1751. Obverse Legend: LUCENSIS RESPUBLICA ( Republic of Lucca) ; Reverse Legend: SANCTUS MARTINUS (Saint Martin). Reverse depicts "Saint" Martin on horseback cutting his cloak in half to share with a beggar. (The horse turns to watch the action...probably thinking "Better that cloak than me.")
  16. RWB
    Without hard evidence, it's just rancid bologna.
  17. RWB
    Wish I could have published this....it wipes out all the previous copy cat stuff.
  18. RWB
    They were all pattern pieces whether shiny or not.
  19. RWB
    Roberts had more opportunities to preserve historical specimens than did Leach.
  20. RWB
    Hmmmm.....I wonder the same thing, just the other way around.
  21. RWB
    Frank Leach had replaced George Roberts as director. Each might have held different views on pattern pieces and each might have been influenced by unknown conversations. Leach "should" have ordered the S-G HE and Pratt HE patterns put in the mint cabinet of coins, and he had previously acted to preserve the $10 knife edge patterns, and small diameter DE, but..... we'll likely never know.
  22. RWB
    It is a pattern piece, not a legal tender coin. There are no circulation strike pieces. It was one of several US Mint experiments toward making gold one dollar, and gold fifty-cent coins in a convenient diameter. See my book Fads, Fakes & Foibles, pages 57-90, for details.
  23. RWB
    I should have written, "everything was suspended until Congress acted on the IGWT bill." Meaning that if the bill passed the Mint would have to use a version with IGWT. Instead of wasting time, the Mint merely waited for a decision before producing S-G half and quarter eagles. During this interval Bigelow made poorly-informed sales pitch about using a real Native American and a sunken relief. (This is according to documents, not imagination.)
  24. RWB
    Goose egg.
  25. RWB
    "Lima beans"