I spent one a few days ago. The guy actually knew what it was!
Conder101 is absolutely correct. Remember, though that ANY half cent is a rare coin and very much worth having.
This gets my vote for the most fun post in some time. A lot of us geezers (I've been practicing geezing a lot lately) have old albums like that....
I was told that this spent many years in someone's collection as a real one. It's an electrotype. [ATTACH]
VERY cool error, but it seems to me that incomplete curved clip is a misnomer. Incomplete punch seems much better.
The 1917 has much better color than this. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Nice coin. I wouldn't care what CAC thought.
The least convincing counterfeit 1836 or 1804 in existence.
Yes, a Booby Head.
You have a Spiked Chin Cohen 7. Congratulations on the cherrypick.
I recently put together an IHC collection in mostly AU, but with a few very nice XFs and some UNCS (plus a couple of proofs, just for fun). The...
I think "Questionable Color" is what they call it when they think it might have been cleaned at some point, but they aren't sure.
Breen's Magnum Opus covers FAR more ground than Burdette's excellent books, which cover early 20th Century pieces. Comparing them is like...
I, too, think it's a possible GMM (Gallery Mint Museum) piece ground down. Ron put COPY stamps on either the obverse or reverse as requested, and...
Actually, there's a lot that's accurate and useful in Breen's books. The problem is that you don't know which is which unless you read the more...
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It looks a lot like the results from once when I tried to remove dirt and corrosion with too sharp a tool. I was being a tool, but not a sharp...
PMD
Polished, IMHO.
PVC residue is acidic. It corrodes the surface, just as the OP has wonderfully illustrated. You can't fix PVC damage, but you can stop it from...
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