It is completely based on the "Greater Fool " hypothesis, there is always a fool ready to buy if they think they can resell it, charge fees to see...
Follow the money, Even the smallest bank has surveillance cameras at each clerk, why can't the mint stop this ? Or maybe it buys cheap publicity....
A photo would be needed, but my suspicion is that a hit by another coin or circulation opened up the left side of the loop of the six and...
If you have cataracts or physical damage such as from disease , the image will still be a problem with a magnifier, it will just be a larger blur....
Your photo of the mint mark needs more definition before one could be more helpful. Jim
With the high speed and noise level of the operation, a large number can occur before they show up in inspection break.
Some of our members weren't born when Jim posted the thread in 2003, and some who were then are not now. Time flies...Best to all the new Year. DG
Here is an interesting article : http://www.error-ref.com/the-mysterious-1960-small-date-lincoln-cent/ And I do not think it is an overdate...
Photo is needed for best guess,
When you know as much as the owner of the coins and not take offense nor offers that are unreasonable. Jim
Appears MD, on both the date area and the mint mark. Lighting nay enhance the appearance.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/02/18/13-most-influential-candy-bars-of-all-time/slide/chicken-dinner/...
Beginner , I told you once in another thread if you had a problem, pm Doug or Peter and if you did, good. If you did not , please do so. Good,...
Yes, books I edited first because that was the post that was reported by another and continued down the thread to the end where I posted myself....
If you sell coins and mail them, save the PVC flips and write "PVC for shipping, replace with non-PVC" on outside and use for shipping as they do...
I only saw several pics of the same coin, or are you saying they should have been different? Fred mentioned it as BU with marks which lowers the...
OK , all of you knock it off! Sooner or later someone will go off track and we will lose a member. Beginner if you have a problem ( seems like...
The ad is from 1963 Numismatic Scrapbook monthly magazine. Like some of current products ( Carr) as long as the underlying coin is real, you can...
I have seen a crew in the city park where I sometimes walk in early morn with large shovels and uncovered holes in the grass, especially after...
I believe it is a real 1943 steel cent that was copper plated and then corroded. Commonly found back in the hey-day of discovery of copper real...
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