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17 hours ago, Modwriter said:

Must be the dies at the Philadelphia mint only. My lone Denver 2020 Tallgrass quarter MS keeper shows none of the above line breaks or wing cuds.

Yes I think it is only Philly quarters that have the Line and the Chip. Whenever I compare a D to a P coin there is no comparison Denver coins are always a better strike they seem to hold up better over time than Philly coins.

 I think there are 4 different wing chip types or they are the same chip that just expanded in size over time..

here is a few more shots

Hinkle and myself are on the same page today . We both seem to be looking at UFO's today ..........LOL I opened a roll of quarters and they were all 2020 Tall Grass Prairie with 20% of them with LAR line breaks and a bunch more with wing die chips, I have a tubes for each of these. Lar Line Break is my name for it. I have found photos of the wing die chips on line but have yet to find the Lar line .. On line.. LoL 

Please feel free to add any pictures you would like to put up.

Ya those are different for the 2006 Mine are 2020 P some are a raised cud some are both funny there in the same spot 14 years later. Must be a common trouble area. 

Nice shots .Yes I believe you are correct on the die chips in the letters . I have some similar nickels with cuds on the left side of Monticello and the doorway. Good find, no big money in them but fun to find.   

31 minutes ago, GBrad said:

Esteban made some pretty good stuff. I saw a YouTube video awhile back of an artist playing an Esteban and it was absolutely phenomenal. Here’s my saying that I’ve always believed in:

“It’s not the arrow, it’s the Indian”

Doesn’t matter what you are playing with no matter if it’s golf, tennis, guitar, etc........ The skill set is in the player. I’m sure that 6 string of yours is capable of putting out some beautiful stuff and I’m inclined to believe you are probably a pretty good player!!! And yes, my Martin is a keepsake for sure. My late father got it from a guy for $15 bucks that was owed to him when he was stationed overseas in Korea while in the Air Force. Don’t think I’ll be parting with it anytime soon......

A great story goes with every guitar. An older guitar player that used to be in my band in the eighty's Had a Gibson hollow body, starburst red I think it was a original Les Paul it was a piece of work. I asked him how long he had it he bought it brand new in 1957 man what a sound. 

2 minutes ago, Nick dunfee said:

Sorry my phone is junk well if you look at it with a loop it look like the steel 3 but it only ways 2.7 I thought it might be experimental strike I fond it in a old school yard metal detexting 

Once upon a time it's weight was around 3.11 but time has taken it's toll,,,, kinda like me old and crusty hard to look at , Just wish I could loose weight ... LoL

21 minutes ago, GBrad said:

You'll find one, they are definitely out there for the taking.  Off the subject here, but what kind of guitars you got?  I have a few acoustics myself and love to play. My prized possession is a 1938 Martin 00-18, small body.  It doesn't see much action for obvious reasons and is kept under lock and key for the most part.... 

Oh my ..A 1938 Martin is worth a buck or 2. LoL  I am just a Simple Guitar player Country and Classic Rock  I have a El-cheepo  20 year old Esteban  acoustic electric was in the local shop never been played still had wrap on the pick guard and keys got it for $150 and It is the best sounding cheep guitar stays in tune also have a used 80 or 90 s Fender star caster and a old 70s Avanti Bass and a 1967 Fender Rhodes keyboard .  LoL  I just love old stuff 

1 hour ago, Alex in PA. said:

Use to buy it annually but I quit when I bought the Mega Book 5th Edition.  

The 2022 is the 75th anniversary so I got it. I like it for a quick look on my desk  and the coil binder makes it easier to look through but the internet has way more info nowadays than my last book in 19 years 2003 or this one has.

2 minutes ago, GBrad said:

Thanks for the "plug" there Ronnie. Actually got lucky and found my 4th WAM a few days ago..... got 2- 98's and 2-2000's now, but can't seem to pin down a 99' while CRH...... But..... because you're a good feller, heck..I may just mail ya one.  Hang in there and keep on alookin!!!! You will come across one pal!

Ya ,no WAM's here yet but I am still always a picking and a grinning.

So I stopped by one of my antique shops today to see what was new. I forgot my Magnifying Glass so I wanted to give my numismatics a test for the fun of it and see if you guys agree with me. I looked at this Indian Head Nickel and said it looks to clean it was $4 so no big deal . Here is what I think ,(take a look and let me know what you think). I am seeing a massive cleaning with tool marks in the field around the buffalo and Indian face and nose also I was seeing some scratches that look like X's on both sides. I remember some of the old collectors would take a razor knife to coins that were bad so not to sell or look at them again.

33 minutes ago, Greenstang said:

Welcome to the Forum.

What makes you think that is a 1943?

Welcome Nick....Not many 43 copper pennies were made to begin with they are vary rare ! 

It looks more like a 47 boiled in acid to make it look like bad a 43 LoL

38 minutes ago, ronnie stein said:

Loomis must be cleaning out the back of their vaults or something, like I said a couple of weeks ago, rolls of pennies are amazing. Hardly any, if any, Shields. Usually about two thirds in the 70's, the remaining third in 50's and 60's, occasional teens, 20's and 30's. I have everyone in the family getting them, except daughter is wore out from it. I'm giving away all the ones in the teens the last two weeks, undulated with them. I'd like to call Loomis, but would imagine security would laugh, hang up, and call the FBI.  LOL     

I agree I have been picking rolls rerolling the zinc and taking out all the copper coins that look good enough to file away and putting what copper is left in a big tin for when copper goes back up.

Found a nice MS looking 2009 Early Childhood today. There not worth a whole lot unless it would grade a 67 but there is a mark on the C in cent, it is still nice to find them.

I can say I had thoughts of using EBay for purchases and sales but after seeing the stuff people were try to sell like what happen to Hoghead .I refuse to be a part of it. It's just bad business for people who work hard at collecting.  

It's all good Tommy , Everyone is cool here you will get a lot of knowledge here I learn something new every day.

Wow you beat me to it woods LoL I just got the same picture

We are always watching out for them where my daughter lives in TN. We are always worried for them and then we get 3 last year which has never happened on Cape Cod and one goes through town ripping up trees 200 years old and 4' across it never harmed anyone ? and only minor damage to buildings  

11 hours ago, DWLange said:

I'm afraid your 1946 is not a mint error. It's a coin that was diminished from some corrosive action after leaving the mint.

Thank you for looking at it DWLange... I made this post to put up coin errors and odd stuff I find for everyone to see.  I agree the coin is junk has been around the block in the laboratory and through the washer. People do strange thing to coins?. I see many coins worn out as thin as a dime roll hunting the only thing about this one is it was even thinner than a dime and the circumference was also the size of a dime which I don't see a lot. Here is a shot of the coin over another penny. you can see it fits inside the rim of the coin behind it. Kinda cool.

7 hours ago, Conder101 said:

It isn't Philly, it's West Point.  In general all the bullion coins are struck at West Point.  From time to time they will strike some elsewhere but the only way to know is by the strap holding the green monster box closed.  If a TPG opens the box they can indicate the mint on the label (P) (W) or (S).  If a TPG is not the one to open the box then there is no way to know which mint it came from so the default is West Point.

 

Yes but that one was opened by the TPG so they know it is a Philly coin. and Philly didn't strike a lot of them.  Yours can't be identified as a Philly strike.

Thanks Conder101 ,, I read somewhere originally Philly made them and WestPoint took over doing the Silver Eagles some time around 1999. But I was not sure because there's no mint mark. I guess they only mark special coins. 

8 hours ago, Woods020 said:

Agree with all answers. In case you are curious I’ll give you a tad bit more info to help understand. 
 

These cents are composed of an inner core alloy of 99.2% zinc and 0.8% copper with an outer plating of pure copper, for an overall composition of 97.5% zinc and 2.5% copper.

Ironically the zinc and copper don’t like each other that much, so they often times have bubbles of air and gases that build up where the metals don’t adhere properly. This can be seen as lots of individual bubbles on a coin, or in this case a liner plating blister. 
 

Lastly these can bust, exposing the inner zinc core. Then chemical processes begin to produce zinc oxide, which degrades the coin. This is often called “zinc rot”

So somebody really messed up in 1982 when they came up with that idea. And they still haven't fixed it 40 years later. Kinda like a bad chrome bumper ,, oh wait they don't make those any more. Boy am I getting old. 

Look at what came up today in a bank roll of quarters , A good old spitting horse. I got a few of these put away. 

We got no Rattlers Or big Flatheads around here much but we got some bad 25' Great White sharks that hang around about 15 miles from my house in Chatham LoL

32 minutes ago, Woods020 said:

VKurt I’m down in Tuscaloosa. I came back at Christmas from being in bucks county myself for work. Glad to be back and hope Alabama is showing itself to be hospitable, despite the insane weather so far. Let me know if you find any good coin shows around. Not nearly as much activity here as Philly. Sometime soon I’m going to check out the greater Atlanta  monthly show. 
 

Hoghead if you pass through Alabama give me a shout. I’m a big fisherman as well and know a place to take you cat fishing. Literally never know what you may pull out at the wheeler damn near Florence. P.S. Jasper is near where I grew up, and not the best representations of Alabama. If you need drugs or hitmen, that’s your place. If not we’ll...😂
 

As an aside and to be the boring guy that talks “work” haha, I agree with Kurt. I think the 63 the dealer said was pretty darn close. The cheek isn’t that bad, but those marks in front of the nose kill it going much higher. It does seem to have nice luster. Hard to say for certain from the pics but nothing says cleaned/polished to me blatantly. 

Thanks for taking a look Woods. Like I said I knew it had some bag marks and it was still the best looking coin I had seen in a while and the dealer was a cool guy. Gave me a great deal on all the coins I got.

MS63 is a good call for it I think, and once I put it on the buffing wheel it will look like new maybe a 70......( LoL Just kidding )