Conder101

Stored for some years in either an album or a paper roll. The edge of the coin was in contact with the cardboard/paper and the coin reacted to the chemicals in it. the edge/rim was closest to the cardboard/paper and reacted first. If it had stayed there eventually the toning would have continued moving in toward the center of the coin.

Yes, the Liberty head proofs for 1907 (and earlier) had mirror fields. Mintages tended to be low so they tend to be cameo as well, so only the fields are mirrors.

Probably coins ordered earlier by people whose credit cards ended up being declined.

But the reverse of the quarter is almost all detail with almost no field, so the field areas of the convex obverse could possibly make contact down in the detail of the reverse.

The third on is a CAM die that has had some die polishing done to it. As the field is ground down the relief gets shallower and the distance separating design features increases. So the A and M are a little further apart, but is the M and E so it retains the same imbalance of distances that identify it as a CAM cent.

They have it correct, an 1848 that has been "modified" to make an 1818. Why? Wo knows. Maybe prcticing so they can make more convincing 1815's out of 1845's.

That must have been a pretty spectacular clash when it first occurred. Unusual to get clashmarks down inside the detail areas like that. And that is the reason those marks survived. Usually they are just on the field and polishing the dies can remove them. But to get those marks would have required removing a significant portion of the wing design as well. It is also possible that there is no evidence on the obv because that may not be the obverse that clashed with the reverse. A clash that severe may have broken the obverse, or both dies may have been removed for polishing to remove the marks and then just not paired together again.

That is the result of a worn out die. Features are mushy and the edges of the lettering where it meets the field of the die is chipping/crumbling.

I think I'd rather have the Muzak on hold lines than the ads and "Your call is important to us" messages they have on the hold lines today.

Last time I ran the numbers, if you sent it in with four other coins it would cost you around $28 (for EACH coin). If you sent it in by itself it cost around $72. Those figures included the grading fees, the shipping/insurance both ways, and the invoice/handling fee. Any cent of that date would have an allowed tolerance weight range of 2.98 grams to 3.24 grams so the weight of your coin is perfectly normal.

You would have to base it on size They are quarter eagles so 18 mm in diameter. So they would have had to have been substituted for either cents 19 mm, or dimes 17.9 mm. Too small to have passed for nickels (21 mm) or any larger denomination.

But the 2021 Morgans were made by the US Mint so they are GENUINE numismatic items and so are not in violation of the law.

But at many places the cashier is under orders to make regular deposits into a safe they can't open to keep the amount of cash in the drawer at a low level. (To limit losses in case of robbery.) so even later in the day they often can't accept a $100 without wiping out a good deal of their cash. SO they still don't accept them. No, which is why a cashier might pass them along as quickly as possible to get them OUT of their till (thinking they are foreign coins) But the odds of getting a gold coin in the till is astronomical. Getting TWO gold coins at the same time???

The first coin appears to be a "waffled" coin for cancellation, the others just appear to be mutilated. The rings may be blanks and/or planchets for bimetalic pieces.

But they would still be an imitation of a genuine numismatic item, so under the HPA they would be required to be marked COPY. So technically these are in violation of the law.

But the proof IS from a different hub (The post 1870 hub). Note the differences in the serifs especially on the N and the different spacing between the NE and CE. The "weak N" isn't the only difference between the hubs.

You can get a 1776 half penny. (Machins Mill contemporary counterfeit) They tend to be "popular" though which makes them expensive.

That's why I have held onto my complete set of Krause Standard Catalogs. And even if they kept the varieties they have removed a LOT of the images as well. They do take up a LOT of space though. I think it is probably gone. There was no 2020 or 2021 editions. There was? I must have missed that one. You can never have enough good books.

I like the Philippines emergency currency. There are a lot of different issues. Those two are in very nice shape.

This is a very common scam. Back when I was younger and there were very few casino's the scam used to commonly take place in bars. Usually back then the coin of choice was the Blake and Company $20 gold pieces. Standard spiel was some sob story and that the only thing they had left was the grandfathers old gold coin. They would have a copy of the Redbook with them where they could show the mark that the coin was worth thousands (Why the mark never wondered why they would be carrying a Redbook with them I'll never understand.) and offer to sell it for a few hundred. (Someone tried to pull this on my girlfriends father. He knew I knew about coins so before he bit the deal he decided to call me and ask about it.) What they were actually selling was a copy of the Blake &Co twenty that back in 1970 Chevy dealers used as a promotion for the Plymouth Gold Duster. Anyone who took a test ride was given one of the copies. It finally got bad enough that Whitman finally took the listing out of the Redbook.

If none are proofs (which I would possibly have difficulty recognizing), then the first one is the 1877. If the third one is proof then it could be a 77.

In Michael' book he does indicate that the S mint dies were returned and received in late December.

One problem with the idea of five dies being used in an oddity of the 1877 reverse. The mint introduced a new rev hub in 1870 replacing the older "shallow N" rev. There are some coins from shallow N hubbed dies in 1871 and 1872 but then no more.. That is until 1877. Every 1877 circulation strike cent is from a shallow N hubbed die. It seems unlikely that no cents would be struck from shallow N dies for five years and then suddenly five shallow N dies would be used in 1877, and none of the retained rev dies would be shallow N dies. There are no shallow N cents after 1877. (The proof 1877 cents were from the new rev hub)

That's bad having to block yourself, and having to do it TWICE! Good grief what were you doing?

It was, thanks I fixed it.