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How much difference a week can make....

KingTotsalot

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Last week was the CRH all hunters live for....this week it was what we normally encounter...:p:p:lol:

5 boxes of halves....no silver....but still some interesting coins to KT anyway.

25 NIFCs...ho hum
3 Proofs...dates spread from 1971 to 2006...that was a bit better.

and a reasonable find for the week....a 1997 die strike through...perhaps plastic...at first when KT saw it He thought...why would someone go to the trouble to grind off the last number of this common date. But as KT began to examine it more closely under magnification He could see a faint 7 in the indentation...and NO grind marks...no mashed in number and not a mark on the back in the same spot. Then His Majesty realized what it was....a die strike, probably through a thin piece of plastic.

So in the following pictures you will see the NIFCs, the proofs, and a couple of images of the strike through coin. A couple of years ago, there was a thread in the forum on using a hand magnifier to make enlargements of coins, so KT uses this method every time He needs to show some detail on a particular coin. The first image is the stock image, and the second is the cropped, enlarged and sharpened image of the date on that same coin.

So no silver this week, but a short lesson on picture taking and enhancement!

Good luck to all next week!
 

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Cool finds your majesty. But double check the edges of that proof 1993 and 2006 they might be silver! (1992-present silver proof sets were made!)
 
Seems the luck streak ran out for me too went to the bank and they only had 1 half dollar a 1978 :roll:
 
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