False alarm. The 1858 specimen cent was not my friend's. His is just as nice, maybe better.

I saw in a different forum here (conservation) that ICCS has a website now. Their page has an 1858 that looks extremely close to a friend of mine's 1858. Does ICCS have to have permission to put in a photo of someone else's coin?

I ordered off the RCM site, but only got a roll of the uncolored ones. I thought it was for the colored ones. Rats!!!

Thanks for your interest in joining the Hamilton Coin Society. The meetings are held on the first Monday of every month, at St. Michael's Anglican Church, 1188 Fennell Ave E, Hamilton. That's near the intersection of Fennell and Upper Ottawa. We haven't had a meeting since Feb and then the virus sta...

Welcome home Jim (or should I say "PD"?

Jim J ... You are hiding behind a new name for this site. I always loved your old name/moniker. Yes, Jim J helped us with the 2011 Charlton after a good friend of mine, Brad Gravestone (Mr 1859) had to withdraw. Rob actually has 5 books out now and I've helped with the first 4, sometimes just to loa...

Canadian silver after 1920 was .800. As such, each face dollar (makes no difference the denominations) contains .6 troy oz of silver. Yes wear, and the hour-to-hour world silver price changes constantly ... as does the US/CAD exchange rate. That's why dealers will usually only give 90% of scrap silv...

Are the coins all US or Canadian? Makes a difference as to troy weight.

Yep, it's one of the 13 or so different 9/8's

For 1893, there is a QP(quad punch), like the 9 photo above from me, a triple punch(TP), two D/P'd ( R/P'd ), and at least 2 other just normally called R/Ps since there is little offset on them. The photo for the T/P in the 2011 Charlton is actually the quad punched and the other photo for 1893 in t...

Again the info from the original poster was good information if you read it all the way through. The info says that heavy die polishing created "Arnprior types")in 50-51, not Arnprior actual dollars like from 1955. The OP is more than welcome to start a thread about anything that he wants, and from ...

The nearly horizontal deep cuts happened post mint. The design and lettering on the coin is the deepest recessed part of the working die, which strikes the coin from the force of the press. When you have mars/deep scratches on the coin lettering or design, it happened post mint, because a scratch on...

Damaged well post-mint.

I agree .. someone with a new hammer.

I saw no half-truths in the OP's post. I take wikipedia with a grain of salt as well, but see no problem with the post, nor the poster. There's few enough posts on this site to start with .. don't need to castigate someone for starting something.