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They look nice but I heard you can make them yourself pretty easyly. I would like to know the best way to tell a mint BB compared to a "homemade" one.
John1 I've sent a few genuine B/B to a couple of members , if they care to comment then you'll know a genuine from a homemade .  |
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Here are the close-up photos. Looks good.  |
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Here are my edited image for this subject. I've been waiting for the real deal. Well done! Quote:
When you find them in a OBW BU roll, then you know they are from the mint and not altered. Important enough to repeat. |
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When they are found in the wild, I always doubt that it is what happened at the mint that caused the color of the coin.
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Well, I've certainly learned something here.
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Great pics Coop - very nicely done.
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I'll interject a bit here. From most all KNOWN 100% Black Beauties, They come out of the 1958, 1959 Philly mint coins. Some have showed up for earlier years that may be. Any From other mints and after 1959 are to be suspect as a doctored coin, whether heat, chemical or other methods. It seems there was a problem of "batches" of planchets were annealed improperly, meaning heat strengthening of the alloy caused this result. Copper/nickel alloy reaction? Too much cobalt is another possibility, but all are unknown exactly what is the root cause. It seems Coop has made the case that these now can be thought of as a mint planchet error and considered PSD (pre-strike damage). |
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Very Impressive presentation Coop. Thank you. And John1, I tried to find 5 steps on the one coin which Coop used for an example image, but I could only get 4. It is a spectacular coin though. Thank you everyone.....
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I don't want to  but would like to know where you got the roll? In your pics it looks like they are in a plastic tube? How did the U.S. mint ship coins in 1959? $50 bags if I remember reading about them right. Maybe someone "made up" that roll which means we do not know it is from a "BU" roll unless it gets graded by one of the three TPG's as MS60 or better.Either way, I really do like the look of it so congrats on your find Wildhare. John1  |
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