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J P M

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  1. Not rare, just hard to find not sure why. Maybe because there are less than fifty graded higher.
  2. Yes white is always a better background. If you can shoot before you put it in the flip. Your shots are nice but still a bit out of focus that will come with more practice. Try to find a focus point on the coin and go with that.
  3. Welcome, even a butterknife handle will work to push them down.
  4. Yes, I agree. I have mentioned before that where I live is a big retirement area. Almost all the old banks have large walk-in vaults with safety deposit boxes. I think when the estates of these people come up a lot of stuff is cashed in.
  5. Very nice Rob, how did you find this one. Did you pull that coin from a proof set?
  6. A great idea but this is a nine-year-old thread.
  7. These coins are by no means worth grading I just find it amazing to find (cartwheel effect) 40+year-old Bu coins in circulation. These coins must have come from a collection now released into the wild.
  8. I think anything after 1981 is a mess once the core is exposed it is all down hill from there eventually, they all end up looking like Frankenstein
  9. It is an unusual coin to find in a roll. I does happen from time-to-time because not too many coins get looked at when rolled automatically. I roll hunt a little and these are some examples of coins I have found in different coin rolls.
  10. I look at the curl on the 9 when you can see it, if it goes up it is a small date and downward if it is a large date.
  11. Oh no not another thing to look for when roll hunting. I see cents of a different color all the time and think that it is because of the zinc core, or someone left the coin in the cup holder in the car to long.
  12. Thank you for the update. I would leave it in that holder if it was my coin.
  13. Nice find, that is a real treat to see around here. We get so many DD coins posted that are not even close to the real deal.
  14. Hi all, I just want to say that even though we see all the strange stuff and get the bad rep from a lot of others the regular members on this site are all good people and would do almost anything to help a fellow collector. I have many of those people that send me PM asking if I would like this or that and I always say thanks for the offer, but I will try it some other way. Just so you all know Denver mint coins are harder to find in the Northeast. Most of you know MR Bill 347 He is one of the good guys, he saw the 2009 D that I found to fill the last hole in my cent folder. Well, he hated that it was the only tarnished coin in the book. So, before I could say no thanks Bill, he sent me out the whole 2009 D BU set. Thanks Bill it looks great.
  15. I picked up a 09 to 58 cent folder a while back, so I am having fun trying to fill holes. Nothing crazy just roll coins that look worthy. The hard-to-find ones always get a spot. This one showed up today not as hard a find as the 1913 but still 104 years old.
  16. Whatever it was some type of tool after it left the mint both impressions have the same variation of markings if you look round the raised dot. So, to me it is PMD
  17. Sorry, it does not look like doubling, it looks like plating blisters around the devices. Greenstang used the proper terminology for this.
  18. It is a 13 D and a strong filled MM.
  19. A oldie but not so much a goodie. Even so finding a 111-year old Coin in a bank roll is still fun.
  20. Truth ........Without the correct die markers, you are not going to get any more than today's market price of around $9.00 each anywhere you take these coins if you are lucky. Truth ....... They are still worth 50 cents all day long.