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Proxiblog.org, a free educational coin site, features one of the most comprehensive illustrated encyclopedias of numismatic terms with nearly 300 entries. Learn to spot cuds, die breaks, split dies, machine doubling, double dies, mules, patina, lamination and so much more! This video describes the basic and most used terms, using the Lincoln Memorial Cent with history of each term in the left-corner quote box. Subscribe and twice weekly reports about coin identification, holdering, bidding, buying, selling and detecting counterfeits. Operated by Michael Bugeja, one of the top numismatists in the country, who wrote for Coin World, Coin Update News, Greysheet and was a past member of the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee of the U.S. Mint.
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