thisistheshow

I have read a lot of passionate opinions on this topic from both sides.  I can say for sure that my favorite series has a former President on it.

It seems that  a lot of pushback used to come in the form of debate over who was worthy of being on the coins. But now I see the men who are on our coins being removed from so many other places (names of schools, statues). 

I can only assume, looking at our current affairs,  that their removal from coins will be expedited. 

If you are new to looking for errors, you can end up really "spinning your wheels". This is what I recommend.

First, do some research online and understand how coins are made. 

Second, go to a website such as https://doubleddie.com/ and take a look around. Instead of looking at one of your cents and just guessing that something is an error, first understand what types of errors are known to be found on each specific year/mm. Then look for those specifically. 

Yes, people sometimes discover errors on years/mm which weren't known to have them. But that is something that you cannot do until you really understand what to look for. 

Hope this helps!

Any time you can get interesting silver pieces for basically melt it is a win. 

Thanks for sharing!

18 hours ago, RWB said:

Many of us have one or more hypocorisms. They’re neither contagious, nor fatal, although one might sometimes draw unwanted attention, or be inconvenient, or even inappropriate.  

 

What is a hypocorism?

 

It’s your nickname, pet name, or maybe an augmented or diminished for of a word.

 

In English we have many hypocorisms for money and monetary tokens. Money might be called “moola;” a ten dollar bill can be a “sawbuck,” and so forth.

 

How many American English coin and currency hypocorisms can members come up with?

 

I never knew what these were called. Learned something new. Thanks!

Welcome! 

Roger, 

I love your contributions. I haven't frequented here often, usually ATS, but I remembered you are here and your posts are a "must see".

6 hours ago, kbbpll said:

Speaking of which... Mr. Stokey

...wow...fascinating to read this. It is written so 'matter of fact'. 

I'd suggest taking it out of the 2x2 and taking a picture of it straight on with your phone as the best way to let others see it. 

Iirc, the dies were worked on in 1960 ( please someone correct me if I am wrong) , meaning 1960 had a better chance of FBL than those coins minted in the last remaining years or just prior. 

So, as others have said, you should post the reverse to get opinions. 

On 1/30/2020 at 2:20 PM, jgrinz said:

My question to you would be WHY certify … the way they are right now have so much more history and are way TOO C00l~!

 Yep heat and cold and that cardboard will do it … similar to coin book toning. Enjoy them 

I agree.  The original packaging of these, maybe it qualifies as ephemera, is very interesting. 

16 hours ago, LINCOLNMAN said:

Just a guess: our host doesn't have the resources to adequately police prices on coins with limited demand to ensure consistency. Although, software could be developed to catch these anomalies. I've seen this sort of thing occasionally on price lists for US coins as well. Just a ton of data to deal with. 

Now that I am paying attention to it, I'm noticing it is always that exact price 18.50 for different coins when I see this occur. 

5 minutes ago, thisistheshow said:

I see it often on world coins. I will find an example and post when I do. Thank you. 

2 hours ago, MarkFeld said:

Can you give an example?

I see it often on world coins. I will find an example and post when I do. Thank you. 

Why is there often a significantly higher price in the VF Or Xf column than higher grades? I am familiar with inflated prices for lowballs but that is not the answer since those are PO1s. 

Thank you. 

I just saw this now. Very cool!

coinsandmedals, are you using the flash? If you are try disabling it. 

1 hour ago, Coinbuf said:

Cell phone pics are not that easy and something of a compromise, 

I agree

 I only use a phone. Trying to get better too