Sean Kelly wrote:
Sean Kelly is looking for someone to share their experiences, accomplishments, or questions at the next Zoom call, Wednesday May 20. The topic can be what you want it to be. If a few of you volunteer and have short presentations we can certainly accommodate more than one in our time. Please consider sharing - no need for anything fancy (although pictures of coins are pretty popular!) If you aren't comfortable with the technology - you can email your materials to a willing volunteer helper who can share the screen, and all you have to do is talk!
Sean is also asking for help from Capped Bust dime collectors. The GroovyCoins website was started for the attribution of half dimes but now has a section to allow folks to attribute the dimes as well: https://groovycoins.com/cbdattribution
The site has the bare minimum number of attributes for all dies, but he would appreciate help from dime experts in fleshing the selectable criteria to make the site more useful and friendly. Your contributions would include more details about the most subtle and confusing dies to attribute.
- Pickup points to look for and what obverse/s or reverse/s they apply to.
- Whether the feature is optional or mandatory:
- Mandatory: will get a Y and N flag. If the element is not extant and the user presses N, it will disqualify all of the coin dies that lack that element. Example: "O in OF centered over second U in scroll". Pressing N removes all those reverses that lack that feature from their attribution.
- Optional: will only get a Y flag. Example: die cracks that form are either not there or there. Answering Y when the cracks are present can help affirm a coin, but doesn't disqualify any dies based on the absence of the cracks.
- Images sent to me (or sent as links to good examples in, say, Coinfacts). These may be added to increase confidence. See: https://groovycoins.com/cbdattribution?year=1833 which has a clickable image in the list of obverses.
