By Ken Potter I want to extend a great big Thank You to CONECA’s Membership Coordinator and Board Seat holder, Al Raddi! When he took over the seat less than two years ago he said his goal was to bring the membership to over 700 which at the time it was 650 give or take […]
by Ken Potter – NLG How did it happen? Read on… I was invited to what was dubbed a “VIP Tour” of the Philadelphia Mint that year. The group of us (all numismatic journalists) were allowed to bring in one coin each, to ask a question about. One of them was about the 1998 “Phantom […]
CONECA Members Share.. . Steve Atwood of Florida managed to nab five new doubled-die reverse varieties of the recently released 2015-P Homestead (Nebraska) America the Beautiful quarters. At least one of the varieties falls into the category of what I’d consider major while a second variety is what I’d classify as borderline-major, perhaps strong enough […]
CONECA Members Share… CONECA member Robert Risi shared this Double struck die struck both sides with second strike being about 40% off center. Robert has been collecting coins for 31 years and has focused on error coins the past 17 or so years. This coin was picked off e-Bay raw back in 2013. It is now […]
CONECA Members Share… Image courtesy of James Wiles A recent attribution package from ANACS revealed a 1999-S PA States Quarter with the strongest spread DDO of any States Quarter known. The doubling is a class IV, offset toward the East with a tilt, resulting the strong spread on the Left side of the Obverse fading […]
