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| Unknown Date 2000-S Penny.
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Big-Kingdom
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 Posted 03/15/2022 12:00 pm
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congrats, and it's money well spent, coins like this are selling ungraded in the $350-$450 range on ebay. graded and MS66. well done.
the one time getting a cud graded, didn't cost more than it was worth! LOL
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| Any Graded 2022 American Women Quarters?
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Big-Kingdom
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Posted 03/15/2022 11:52 am
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I'm sure you can find the PR70 quarters somewhere. The proof set was released March 8th, I'm sure folks are waiting in the long lines at the graders.
Good luck on the MS70 quarters though, Highest I've seen is a MS68.
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| 2022 Womens Quarters Clad Proof Set - Gone
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Big-Kingdom
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Posted 03/09/2022 11:44 am
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I don't see how they can NOT put the quarters in the annual proof set, kind of defeats the purpose of the annual set if they removed them.
$21 for $1.25 of quarters sold at $4.20 each, that's a savvy purchase! j/k. we like what we like.
no quarters in the annual proof sets... yeah. seems dumb, what's next, no quarters or halves in the annual mint sets because they sell them separately by bags and rolls?
the Innovation dollars aren't legislated for circulation, this is why they aren't in the annual sets, and the NA dollar still is.
Although I have to say I'm miffed they didn't include the George H.W. Bush dollar coin in the annual sets in 2020, it should have been.
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| 2020 US Quarter Silver Proof Set - How Much Do These Sell For Normally?
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Big-Kingdom
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Posted 03/04/2022 11:25 am
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As I understand it, they get 600-800 90% strikes from a die pair, and they get 1800 die strikes from a die pair using .999 instead.
Also, they have 80x shutowns for maintenance a day with 90% blanks, and only have 20x shutdowns a day for maintenance with .999 blanks.
there is slightly less customer returns and slightly less damage loss due to hazed strikes with .999 blanks.
overall the mint did an analysis and determined they would have savings and increase production by using .999 blanks.
there was also that there is a ready made supply of .999 that everyone uses around the world while 90% is sort of a special order now a days.
all around savings for them to use .999 instead of the 90%, not necessarily savings on the blanks though, on operations- time and wear and tear.
the 2015 law that mandated "not less than 90%" made 40% silver or 35% silver impossible without an act of congress to make that so. but they had the option to go to .999% because of it and so they did.
And I'd say if the price is right for the 2019 silver proof quarters ( it was in 2020 when they increased the prices) you could stack them. Still too expensive for stacking though, proof coins usually are.
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| Why All Of The Half Dollar Coin Hate?!?!
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Big-Kingdom
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Posted 03/03/2022 11:09 am
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@gkhanna74,
Nothing wrong with that, but you'd be eccentric different from most people. the fact is, Halves and dollar coins didn't circulate in 214 when this thread was started and finished, and they still don't circulate now, and honestly they never really did.
the average cash register tray has 5 bill slots and 5 coin slots. for the bills, $1, $5, $10, $20, and the last used for $50 and $100....(a lot of places keep that empty for rolled coins instead quarters dimes and nickels)
for the coins, Cent, Nickel Dime, Quarter and more rolled coin, usually 4 rolls of cents.
businesses don't use them, vending machine don't always take them, they just don't circulate for whatever the reason. I don't want to see them ended, but I also don't see them every really circulating or being "day to day" coins.
Plus, dollar coins would be difficult for strippers and I'm not tipping $5s. :) |
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| Loomis: They Are Presorting
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Big-Kingdom
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Posted 03/02/2022 12:20 pm
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LOL
as far as I know: The Mints at Philadelphia and Denver and the San Francisco Assay Office have a number of machines in operation to sort silver out as it comes to them. Several of the larger Federal Reserve Banks have also installed separating machines, furnished by the Bureau of the Mint, and begun operations in 2017. These are at Boston, Cleveland and Chicago.
More may have followed since 2017 when the Fed Reserve banks added the machines. the distribution hubs do not have the machines that I am aware of to do this... yet.
So if your area is served not by a hub, but by a larger federal reserve bank instead, it's theoretically possible that are sorting out the returns for silver before separating and re-rolling like they were supposed to be doing since 1965, reclaiming the older dimes quarters and halves and reissuing clad in it's place and sending the silver coin to the treasury for destruction and reclamation.
that isn't loomis, that is the bank stamping them. there's absolutely no reason for loomis or any other entity or the distribution hub where it comes from to stamp the boxes like that. best case they stamp them with a number for inventory control. if stamped with a date or a message it was the bank doing it usually but could be from the Fed.
My guess though is your bank is trying to get you to go somewhere else for half dollars without telling you directly. At some point found it worked to get people to stop asking for them and go somewhere else.
you search that box, you don't find any silver and you assume it's true, even though skunk boxes happen all the time. maybe you search it and you find a 40% or a 90%. then you'd know I'm right about it.
Possibility exists if you don't have it outsourced and your coin is picked up from a Fed Reserve bank by Loomis to go to the bank, in which case, they might have stamped it like that just to be sure what is what before they send the wrong thing out the door.
Like me I have the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta since I'm in south florida. CLEARLY they aren't gonna drive to and from atlanta all the time, so there is a distribution hub that the armored carriers go to to pick up and drop off and mint deliveries for the area get shipped to. There's probably more than one between here and Atlanta actually. Jacksonville, Orlando, Miami, Maybe Tampa also. The Fed is basically hands off except for inventory control and accounting, making sure nothing just disappears. But nobody is sorting it out beside the coinstars at that level.
oh and the possibility exists that it's all 2021 or 2022 dated halfs and that why it's marked the way it is.
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| Brokage Or Broadstruck? (1999 Cent)
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Big-Kingdom
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Posted 02/17/2022 1:51 pm
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Not to step on anyones toes, but Zinc rot isn't a disease. it's a reaction between the copper (anode) and the zinc (cathode) and water/moisture/humidity as the electrolyte causing a galvanic cell and rapid corrosion of the zinc.
if you knock off the blueish stuff with a soft paint brush, (the bluish crusty stuff is Hydrozincite, crystaline zinc caused by water basically). then keep it dry from here on and protected, the exposed zinc core will dust over with a light layer of white zinc oxide, and it will stop. if that gets knocked off, it will create more zinc oxide to cover the exposed zinc and protect it from loss again. you can leave the Hydrozincite it won't grow unless there is moisture, but it's kind of unsightly.
Zinkpest ("Zinc Pest" or "zinc rot") is an old term for a destructive, intercrystalline corrosion process of zinc containing lead impurities. Moisture is the lead contributor to the breakdown.
Weissrost ("white rust") is an old term for Zinc corrosion, old war medals, and die cast models are affected by this, if you don't wash them at all and then handle sparingly, and try to keep humidity of the storage environment below 65%, it can be slowed to a crawl or even stopped.
It's the moisture and handling in circulation that is the rapid death sentence to exposed zinc of split plating, not the split plating itself. no electrolyte = no galvanic cell reaction no zinc rot, and minimal zinc dust even.
if it's constantly handled and getting wet from humidity, skin moisture, or water, it deteriorates rapidly under the copper and falls apart.
Main point is it can be maintained and controlled. Here's a 1990 with severe split plating, been in my custody for 32 years now, and following the rules. It's not a death sentence. this coin will still look like this in another 32 years and longer with no change.
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| Why Are New Coins So Beaten Up These Days?
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Big-Kingdom
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Posted 02/17/2022 1:22 pm
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yeah, they are meant for circulation, not collectors, they don't care how banged up they get at the mint during transportation, at the distribution hubs where they are dumped and rolled. just not their top concern, same reason they wear dies out before changing them. good is good enough for them.
pretty sure it's always been this way and more damage and mess as time goes on like when they upgrade machines for speed, or outsourced distribution to armored carriers instead of the Federal Reserve banks doing it.
I don't think it's about cost savings, as it is about speed and efficiency, just like they have a weight tolerance, they have an acceptable tolerance for appearance also I'd suppose.
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| Silver 2005-P Kansas State Quarter?
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Big-Kingdom
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Posted 02/16/2022 11:11 am
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"Without damaging it"? Like John1 said an XRF machine. you could inspect between the reeds on the edge to see if the plating missed and copper is showing through under magnification.
What I would do, is scrape the edge between the reeds on the edge, on the low spots, and look under magnifier with copper. I'm certain it's plated without doing any of that.
The fact is, San Francisco makes the S mint silver quarters, there's no reason for a silver blank to be in Philly mint to be struck there from the start.
For that reason, you don't really need an XRF or to scrape the edge and look for copper underneath, silver blanks don't just move randomly from mint to mint unaccounted for, neither does gold blanks. they have better inventory control especially since the PMs were taken out of circulating coinage and it's different supply chain paths nowadays.
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| Now Coins First Rolled Out: Should I Get Graded?
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Big-Kingdom
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Posted 02/14/2022 4:50 pm
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Just going to say, I searched boxes of 2018 and 2019 quarters in 2019 looking for Ws, of solid boxes, I found one coin I thought might qualify for MS68, and I'm being optimistic on that, it's more than likely a MS67. I searched new boxes also in 2005 and 2006. Above MS67 is a white whale. MS66 and MS67 is possible with enough searching.
that's the reality of circulation strike coins, some even lower, the vast majority MS64 to MS65, an occasional MS66 or 67, and anything higher is basically a holy grail. MS69 or 70 is basically unheard of ever happening and a 1 in a trillion coin to find.
the mint at full operation is cranking out 1.8 million coins an hour, something like 500 coins a second. on just one press, something like 10-12 coins a second.
they get up to 69 or even 70 from 2005-2010 with the "satin finish" coins from the mint sets, but I think that is more of a marketing gimmick and market grading and less about their actual grades. Literally any other year coins can't really get past MS68. they even stopped the MS70 nonsense after 2005 on those satin finish coins because people knew it wasn't real.
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| 1909-S VDB MS63 RB - Need Educating On Coin's Appearance
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Big-Kingdom
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Posted 02/14/2022 4:28 pm
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do you normally photograph coins? Reason I ask is a lot of a picture has to do with the picture itself and the lighting and focus, coins, and through slab plastic, are incredibly fickle.
Does the coin actually look like this to the eye, or is it darker or lighter? I've a feeling the picture isn't totally representative of the coin as "true to eye".
humidity might not be a factor but condensation sure could be. When the hot air comes in contact with the cold glass, heat is transferred from the hot air to the cold glass. The loss of heat in the surrounding air causes the water vapor by the glass to lose energy. Once energy is lost, the water vapor condenses into liquid on the glass, if there is humidity in the jar before it was sealed, this can repeat over and over again each day. as it heats up, and when it cools off. the humidity inside has nowhere to go, sort of like how a terrarium bottle garden operates, cycles from liquid to vapor and back to liquid but on a small, small scale of the little bit trapped in the bottle.
on the other hand, you say you bought it 40 years ago, sent it for grading in 2019, and you don't remember it looking like that. Was it conserved before grading? did you submit it yourself, or through a coin shop, and would they have dipped it or something to make it pretty and now it's retoned ugly?
I don't think it's ugly, but I really don't think the pictures are doing it any justice either. reverse picture is blurry. the obverse image seems like it's got some plastic reflection above the date and Lincolns chin.
I think MS63RB is still very possible to happen, majority of copper coins fall in this category until they are heading toward majority chocolate...
PCGS designates Brown for copper coins that have less than 5% of their original mint red color.
PCGS designates Red and Brown for copper coins that grade MS60 or better and show between 5% and 95% of their original mint red color
PCGS designates Red for copper coins that grade MS60 or better and show 95% or more of their original mint red color
if they hold to what they say on their website, that coin still ahs a way to go before it gets designated Brown.
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