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Congratulations @Larsjan!!! After a very, very long journey the coin has been authenticated, graded EF45 by PCGS, and will be auctioned in November. I expect there might be a splash in the mainstream media closer to the auction.
https://coinweek.com/second-known-new-england-threepence-consigned-to-stacks-bowers-auction/
https://stacksbowers.com/sbpressreleases/most-exciting-colonial-coin-discovery-in-years-consigned-to-stacks-bowers-galleries/
 

The bare hands and the clinking made me cringe.

Uh, the 1.8 grams is the weight of the cyclonite, not the brass. Stop digging and climb up out of that foxhole, soldier.

I was diligently searching for some correspondence (OK, not really) saying "Can we get this $%*& typewriter fixed?", and then I ran into this. There was probably never any "1" key!!!
Yes, @DWLange there has to be more to the Elias story.

Thanks for the kind words. The 50c curved right Maple Leaf has been a holy grail for me since I was a kid, after my grandfather gave us each a bunch of coins including some Canadian silver. This popped up around my 60th birthday and I thought, spoon it, I'm getting one. The TrueView looks brown and the HA images (above) were not flattering either. Then the coin showed up, and wow.
What's the story on why you carry around your 1855? I'm guessing there has to be one.
@Voltyrisgreat idea for a thread, I hope more people post theirs.

I'm with you. Frankly, I think they got this one wrong (doesn't surprise me over there). I don't really care. The coin is freakin' spectacular.

Handwriting was so elegant back then. Each capital letter is like a work of art! Thanks for posting, I'm sure more viewers than me enjoy seeing this stuff. The RRs had a lot of business with the mints so I don't know if anybody would mind if you just keep adding photos to this thread when you have the time.
My personal opinion is that "cleaning" as a curse on a coin is way overblown. That 1855 looks lovely regardless and it could have been "cleaned" over 100 years ago. This is a case where I say, who cares.

It sounds like I'll be able to post my 6 terabyte blurry images in one second. Cool.

It sounds like I'll be able to post my 6 terabyte blurry images in one second. Cool.

1892 10c Reverse 1 PCGS AU58, just arrived. Using seller's images because mine stink. My collecting goal expanded irrationally, so now I'm getting the first Philadelphia "official" release year of each reverse type. Die clash on the obverse I think is cool, wheat under the ribbons and chin, O from ONE behind the ear, and I think it banged so hard between the 2 and the bust that it caused a die chip. Very nice strike on the reverse.

Waited a long time for this one.

The New Orleans adjusting room records for April 1900 are easier to analyze. They only made dollars that month. 1,500,000 of them, taken from the monthly mintage records found here. https://archive.org/details/Rg104entry271vol5/page/n61/mode/2up
New Orleans lists 43 employees. They averaged 352 planchets per hour, 5.87 per minute, one every 10 seconds. The "perfect attendance" employees worked 168 hours, there were 21 weekdays during April 1900, so I conclude that New Orleans was working 8 hour shifts 5 days a week. I plugged the below numbers into a spreadsheet. We easily derive total April planchets for each employee, by multiplying hours worked by average per hour. The sum of that equals 2,167,021 planchets adjusted during April - 667,021 more than were coined. I suppose they got ahead of the coining, they touched roughly a third of the planchets more than once, or there's a discrepancy. I don't know how they would have recorded planchets per hour. I suppose each employee had a bin, but did they have counting machines? Merely counting roughly 10,000 coins per hour seems like a daunting task.
10 seconds per coin is an astounding rate. Even if the 2.1 million total was fudged, and we took the 1.5 million mintage instead, and all 43 employees worked the full 168 hours, that's still 207 coins per hour per employee, or one every 17 seconds. Harbison doing one every 12 seconds was actually a bit slow. I guess I needed a project this morning!

If you followed any of my 'latest acquisition" posts, you know that I've been collecting the less common varieties of Barber dimes. I wanted to put them all together and show them off, and decided on a slideshow format. Then I figured I should define the markers for the varieties, and then of course I had to start going blah blah blah. Now I'm not sure if this supposed to be a coin show presentation, a "scholarly" article, a book, a registry set where there is no category, or what. So, just look at the pictures I guess.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hOo3bxNVxZ8y9JvZJZSNgdn93vz9NQE6/view?usp=sharing
You should be able to open from Google drive. If you have a Google account, log in, then you can select "Open with Google slides", and then "Present". If not, download and then open with Powerpoint or Open Office and run the show. I think it works best as a slideshow, because you can flip back and forth between slides and see the design changes easily that way. On a phone it's not going to present well.
Comments and suggestions welcome - it's still a work in progress.
Much of this is repetition of the articles I've already posted on here, but again, the inspiration was showing off the collection. Many of them are not in great condition, but my objective was to spend less than $300 on each coin. I have two kids going to college soon!
@Insider, this is content you will find nowhere else! Make this forum go viral!!

Why not. I don't actually have a nice _Bison_ nickel even though I think it's one of the best coin designs.

Ignore doesn't work unless you log in. I had to log in after 10 days to say that. Honestly, I'm disenchanted with the whole thing. Not just here. Post some coins instead of all this blah blah blah.

I fail to understand the need to inject your poison into every forum thread. This thread is about mint marks. Got anything useful to contribute? Paragraph after paragraph of flowery language and it's all drivel. Go find a forum for "people who need attention".

I don't want to hijack the thread but you asked. Here is the O behind the ear, followed by overlay from maddieclashes. There's also clashing through the ribbon, under chin, and between 2 and bust could be clash or die chips. I've seen others on Heritage with O behind the ear but I'd have to dig around to find them again.

Overlay:

Here is clashing in the island on a 1946 Canada dollar. Similar clashing is found in other years.

These aren't the deepest parts of the dies, but they're still on the relief.
 

I think they sold a lot of these in souvenir shops around Athens. I have a tie clip with one on it that my grandfather got on a trip to Greece.

But you asked if it's a doubled die obverse. How can anybody form an opinion about a doubled die obverse when you don't show the entire obverse? Perhaps you can understand the reaction you got. Clearly "DDO OR NO?" implies that you're asking for a specific diagnosis. Personally, I also don't find very useful these pictures of a computer screen of a 50-100x zoom of a tiny area of a coin, without showing anything else.

I think the whole story is bogus and made up to market some coins, but nobody knows for sure that is alive.

Maybe this is where Richie's dime came from.  

Each of the claims (including #6 from Kppbll) requires sufficient evidence to support the claim. Not one of them possesses such evidence, and at least two, #4 and #6, are actually disproven by the evidence. Maybe it's the overall climate of lies, empty speculation, grasping greed, or a flight to ignorance and "alternative facts" that underlies the mess. It is very disheartening because the hobby has come to depend on what is supposed to be independent and thorough authentication.
Exceptions might be #2 and #3 since they are clearly as described. But their existence implies unusual activity at a mint (assuming they are not more Chinese fakes).

I'm not knowledgeable about this at all, but it sounds like you have it about right. It seems like the farther into the future we get, the more value these things might have because so many will have been trashed when the coins move on. On the other hand, brown box Ikes in the original boxes are still common as dirt, and it's been 50 years. I think it's funny that I have a pristine Matchbox car box from the 1960s and it's worth more than the car that came in it. So you never know. I wonder if selling all the brochures and mint mailings together separately would be better than along with each set.

The AU range is 50-58, for example on this page. https://www.ngccoin.com/coin-explorer/gold-commemoratives-1903-1926-pscid-72/1915-s-g1-panama-pacific-ms-coinid-17449
There's probably a better reference but the Sheldon scale is described in more detail here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_coin_grading_scale
Great photos! Edit: oops I see that they are scans. In my experience, scans make coins look circulated when they might not be.

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A: Her boyfriend is blonde.