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.

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

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.