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Another way to detect tiny patches of wear?
HIYA,
Several years ago I went all over the region visiting banks and loading up on Kennedy halves. I saved a lot of them that were BU and put them away for safe keeping. Last night I went thru a couple of boxes of halves that were dated 15-20 years ago and couldn't find any wear on them when I looked under a high powered lamp. I know I must be wrong about them being uncirculated because you don't find old coins in great shape 20 years later. Or do you? Maybe what I have are coins stuck on worn dies or softly struck. Maybe THAT is the reason why I can't see the definition in the presidents' hair. I flip over the coin and find that the shield on the presidential seal isn't flat and square. I've read that a way to detect wear on clad coins is to tilt it toward the light and the wear will reveal itself by being another tone of silver. Beyond that, I don't know how to notice wear on a AU-58 coin. |
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Another way to detect tiny patches of wear?
george pearl wrote:
HIYA, Several years ago I went all over the region visiting banks and loading up on Kennedy halves. I saved a lot of them that were BU and put them away for safe keeping. Last night I went thru a couple of boxes of halves that were dated 15-20 years ago and couldn't find any wear on them when I looked under a high powered lamp. I know I must be wrong about them being uncirculated because you don't find old coins in great shape 20 years later. Or do you? Maybe what I have are coins stuck on worn dies or softly struck. Maybe THAT is the reason why I can't see the definition in the presidents' hair. I flip over the coin and find that the shield on the presidential seal isn't flat and square. I've read that a way to detect wear on clad coins is to tilt it toward the light and the wear will reveal itself by being another tone of silver. Beyond that, I don't know how to notice wear on a AU-58 coin. Sshhhhhh..nobody else does either. That's why so many coins that get slabbed as AU-58 get cracked out and resubmitted, only to re-emerge as MS-63. James the Equivocator |
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Another way to detect tiny patches of wear?
In article , "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote:
george pearl wrote: HIYA, Several years ago I went all over the region visiting banks and loading up on Kennedy halves. I saved a lot of them that were BU and put them away for safe keeping. Last night I went thru a couple of boxes of halves that were dated 15-20 years ago and couldn't find any wear on them when I looked under a high powered lamp. I know I must be wrong about them being uncirculated because you don't find old coins in great shape 20 years later. Or do you? Maybe what I have are coins stuck on worn dies or softly struck. Maybe THAT is the reason why I can't see the definition in the presidents' hair. I flip over the coin and find that the shield on the presidential seal isn't flat and square. I've read that a way to detect wear on clad coins is to tilt it toward the light and the wear will reveal itself by being another tone of silver. Beyond that, I don't know how to notice wear on a AU-58 coin. Sshhhhhh..nobody else does either. That's why so many coins that get slabbed as AU-58 get cracked out and resubmitted, only to re-emerge as MS-63. James the Equivocator and the pre spaghetti hair ones are really easy to slide up or down. good call, james. |
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