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anyone finding great lincolns
On Apr 3, 12:07 pm, "Scurvy Dog" wrote:
wrote in message ... On Mar 28, 9:41 pm, (james durham) wrote: just curious to know because i roll hunt all the time i find stuff. thats the best part of this hobby. you can allways find things you want and need. just today i learned a thing or two about varieties. my friend discovered a 2004 that had a extra bit to the columns on lincolns side. i even found that he had pictured it so well that i can see whats up. and try finding them now. best part is you can still find nice ones of them untoned or not dirty. im going to rol hunt tomorrow and see if i can get some san francisco mints or wheats or canadians or 20 or 2010 maybe some foreign stuff. I did recently find an excellent 1909 S VDB, but not in a coin roll. This came in an old Dansco album, which it was misplaced as a 1909 S. Took to several dealers, who confirmed the date and authenticity. Sent to PCGS, sent back as 1909 S authentic, but with an altered surface. Still, sold for $705. Yes and I found a MS70 1916D Merc dime in my breakfast cereal this morning, complete with PCGS slab! I took it to several dealers, who confirmed the date and authenticity. I'm currently taking offers... So happy for you ... another form of non-digestible fiber. I didn't post the best part: the penny album was sent as a bonus for winning a Shield/Liberty Nickel album. The altered surface of the 1909 S VDB was apparently caused by long- term exposure to tape, some of which remained on the album. Sometimes those freebies are MOST interesting. Daniel B. Wheeler |
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On Apr 16, 5:54*am, Ken Fscher wrote:
* * * I had a "Whoa" when I was listing a 1916P Mercury tonight and the picture of the reverse looked as if there was a D but with the die mostly filled; I must be confused. I don't see a 'mostly filled' D, anywhere on the dime. It certainly is not where the mintmark usually appears. |
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"james durham" wrote in message ... just curious to know because i roll hunt all the time i find stuff. thats the best part of this hobby. you can allways find things you want and need. just today i learned a thing or two about varieties. my friend discovered a 2004 that had a extra bit to the columns on lincolns side. i even found that he had pictured it so well that i can see whats up. and try finding them now. best part is you can still find nice ones of them untoned or not dirty. im going to rol hunt tomorrow and see if i can get some san francisco mints or wheats or canadians or 20 or 2010 maybe some foreign stuff. I average about 7 wheat's a week hunting old houses with metal detector condition varies. Oldest wheat to date is a 1910 in excellent shape a most beautiful patina. I usually find 1 silver per 5-6 wheat's. So wheat's are good barometers for what might lie in the yards. |
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"celtex" wrote in message ... "james durham" wrote in message ... just curious to know because i roll hunt all the time i find stuff. thats the best part of this hobby. you can allways find things you want and need. just today i learned a thing or two about varieties. my friend discovered a 2004 that had a extra bit to the columns on lincolns side. i even found that he had pictured it so well that i can see whats up. and try finding them now. best part is you can still find nice ones of them untoned or not dirty. im going to rol hunt tomorrow and see if i can get some san francisco mints or wheats or canadians or 20 or 2010 maybe some foreign stuff. I average about 7 wheat's a week hunting old houses with metal detector condition varies. Oldest wheat to date is a 1910 in excellent shape a most beautiful patina. I usually find 1 silver per 5-6 wheat's. So wheat's are good barometers for what might lie in the yards. Be sure to check everywhere under old linoleum floor coverings. Based on a find or two I know of, I suspect that there may have been a custom of planting a shiny new penny under new linoleum floor jobs as a good luck charm for the house. In their protected niche they come up with lots of mint sheen still showing under a thin film of oleate deposits that yield to generally harmless cleaning methods. It's hard to imagine anyone being so careless as to accidentally leave them there, especially back when a penny actually could buy something. |
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On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 05:50:33 -0700 (PDT), Peter
wrote: On Apr 16, 5:54Â*am, Ken Fscher wrote: Â* Â* Â* I had a "Whoa" when I was listing a 1916P Mercury tonight and the picture of the reverse looked as if there was a D but with the die mostly filled; I must be confused. I don't see a 'mostly filled' D, anywhere on the dime. It certainly is not where the mintmark usually appears. I have a 30 power loupe, and I don't see it on the coin, but when I look at the picture, "it looks as if there was a D". I searched to see if there was filled die strikes cataloged and found a statement about 264,000 strikes and half a million coins in collections. :-) For now I consider it an optical illusion, but I won't list the coin. |
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On Apr 17, 8:42*pm, Ken Fscher wrote:
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 05:50:33 -0700 (PDT), Peter wrote: On Apr 16, 5:54*am, Ken Fscher wrote: * * * I had a "Whoa" when I was listing a 1916P Mercury tonight and the picture of the reverse looked as if there was a D but with the die mostly filled; I must be confused. *I don't see a 'mostly filled' D, anywhere on the dime. *It certainly is not where the mintmark usually appears. * * * * I have a 30 power loupe, and I don't see it on the coin, but when I look at the picture, "it looks as if there was a D". * * * * I searched to see if there was filled die strikes cataloged and found a statement about 264,000 strikes and half a million coins in collections. :-) * * * * For now I consider it an optical illusion, but I won't list the coin. I think you can be pretty confident if you didn't see a D under that much magnification it does not exist. |
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On Apr 16, 8:36�pm, "mazorj" wrote:
"celtex" wrote in message ... "james durham" wrote in message ... just curious to know because i roll hunt all the time i find stuff. thats the best part of this hobby. you can allways find things you want and need. just today i learned a thing or two about varieties. my friend discovered a 2004 that had a extra bit to the columns on lincolns side.. i even found that he had pictured it so well that i can see whats up. and try finding them now. best part is you can still find nice ones of them untoned or not dirty. im going to rol hunt tomorrow and see if i can get some san francisco mints or wheats or canadians or 20 or 2010 maybe some foreign stuff. I average about 7 wheat's a week hunting old houses with metal detector condition varies. Oldest wheat to date is a 1910 in excellent shape a most beautiful patina. I usually find 1 silver per 5-6 wheat's. So wheat's are good barometers for what might lie in the yards. Be sure to check everywhere under old linoleum floor coverings. �Based on a find or two I know of, I suspect that there may have been a custom of planting a shiny new penny under new linoleum floor jobs as a good luck charm for the house. �In their protected niche they come up with lots of mint sheen still showing under a thin film of oleate deposits that yield to generally harmless cleaning methods. �It's hard to imagine anyone being so careless as to accidentally leave them there, especially back when a penny actually could buy something.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Oh, goodie! Something I can respond to. If you ever have the opportunity, OLD time constructioners would nail a cent to the front door frame of the house they were building. Usually a hole was drilled through the cent and nailed in place, since nails back then were somewhat expensive. As nails became cheaper, the coin would be "triangled" with nails. Jerry |
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"Jerry Dennis" wrote in message ... .... Oh, goodie! Something I can respond to. If you ever have the opportunity, OLD time constructioners would nail a cent to the front door frame of the house they were building. Usually a hole was drilled through the cent and nailed in place, since nails back then were somewhat expensive. As nails became cheaper, the coin would be "triangled" with nails. Jerry Now that you mention it, I vaguely recall my father (who was a carpenter) once telling me about how the "old-timers" sometimes would do that. Too bad for the ones that were holed, though. Another technique would have been to stash them in a spot that didn't require any fastening, such as in the grooved inletting under a door sill or behind the inletted clamshell edge trim along the top of the doorway. Which I just realized hearkens directly back to ancient times when entryways often were festooned with items and symbols to guard against evil gods and spirits or propitiate the friendlier ones. It's amazing how some of these primitive traditions have survived into modern times. And not all of them are done on the sly. The tradition of the groom carrying his bride over the threshold is rooted in the significance of doorways. And we still cling to our many manifestations of the "lucky penny," such as inserting one in new wallets and "penny loafer" moccasins. (Not to mention the obsolete but presumably still extant practice of placing pennies on the eyes of the departed.) Who knows, some day we may see numismatic metal detectors fighting over trash heaps that are target-rich in old shoes and pocketbooks. :-) Poking around in attic woodwork and other concealed spots and even in masonry can reveal other interesting workman "souvenirs". Skilled tradesmen often would leave their names or initials, dates, and comments as a sort of "Kilroy was here" message. Sometimes they'd leave a trinket or two, which I suppose would qualify them as "construction exonumia". Or as ancestors of the trinkets planted as a reward to successful geo-trackers. - mazorj, Amateur Nail-Banger |
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"sgt23" wrote in message ... On Apr 17, 8:42 pm, Ken Fscher wrote: On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 05:50:33 -0700 (PDT), Peter wrote: On Apr 16, 5:54 am, Ken Fscher wrote: I had a "Whoa" when I was listing a 1916P Mercury tonight and the picture of the reverse looked as if there was a D but with the die mostly filled; I must be confused. I don't see a 'mostly filled' D, anywhere on the dime. It certainly is not where the mintmark usually appears. I have a 30 power loupe, and I don't see it on the coin, but when I look at the picture, "it looks as if there was a D". I searched to see if there was filled die strikes cataloged and found a statement about 264,000 strikes and half a million coins in collections. :-) For now I consider it an optical illusion, but I won't list the coin. I think you can be pretty confident if you didn't see a D under that much magnification it does not exist. Actually, anything over 5x is good mostly for spotting and identifying extremely tiny isolated details like whether a really small dot is perfectly circular or slightly elliptical. That means that super-magnification tends to lose the bigger picture of the forest's patterns of trees. These are better identified with low magnification or the naked eye. Once identified that way, closer examination under higher power (especially with stereo microscopes) gets you into the realm of nailing down specific die markers, looking for obscure hints of counterfeiting, etc. |
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On Apr 18, 4:48*pm, "mazorj" wrote:
"sgt23" wrote in message ... On Apr 17, 8:42 pm, Ken Fscher wrote: On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 05:50:33 -0700 (PDT), Peter wrote: On Apr 16, 5:54 am, Ken Fscher wrote: I had a "Whoa" when I was listing a 1916P Mercury tonight and the picture of the reverse looked as if there was a D but with the die mostly filled; I must be confused. I don't see a 'mostly filled' D, anywhere on the dime. It certainly is not where the mintmark usually appears. I have a 30 power loupe, and I don't see it on the coin, but when I look at the picture, "it looks as if there was a D". I searched to see if there was filled die strikes cataloged and found a statement about 264,000 strikes and half a million coins in collections. :-) For now I consider it an optical illusion, but I won't list the coin. I think you can be pretty confident if you didn't see a D under that much magnification it does not exist. Actually, anything over 5x is good mostly for spotting and identifying extremely tiny isolated details like whether a really small dot is perfectly circular or slightly elliptical. That means that super-magnification tends to lose the bigger picture of the forest's patterns of trees. *These are better identified with low magnification or the naked eye. *Once identified that way, closer examination under higher power (especially with stereo microscopes) gets you into the realm of nailing down specific die markers, looking for obscure hints of counterfeiting, etc. Has he tried that yet, and if he doesn't see the D, are there any other possibilities? |
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