Have to agree with you cush, here's a LINK to a great pict of a pristine 1943 steel on coinfacts.com The 3 definitely points down on the real deal.
Here's a LINK to a site with TONS of great error info. Ken Potter is a wealth of information, and even runs his own ebay store. I don't know for...
Roller issues set aside, if a "harder", slightly thicker bit of metal made it into a planchet and met with a die, I'd imagine that the die details...
If it was a double strike, wouldn't the majority of the coin be doubled? Just curious, so I'll wait for the resident experts to weigh in ;)
Well....my sets arrived today. Must say I've got the best wife in the world. She was home and hopped online at noon to order them for me. And...
Was going to say heat too...but you beat me to it ;) Just looking at your coin scan/picture, I would guess it had been in, or near, a fire....
You see the page off the usmint site about the $100,000 exchange going on in DC? Check out this LINK and you'll know where 2 million of the 2005...
Speaking of which....I bet you'll soon see ebay adds for "Capitol Hill" and "National Nickel Exchange" nickels. Check out this LINK
Any chance on posting a pict on these? You definitely got my curiosity going.
Can you post a picture or scan? Was the comparison coin a 1973 as well? If so, I'll have to defer to the experts, but otherwise I will share my...
No disrespect to you NOS, but it is far more detrimental to carry a borderline heated debate in someone elses thread. Particularly, when the...
Welcome to the forum Terry. The coin you've described is commonly known as a "die clash", and is exactly what it sounds like. At some point,...
I have to agree with GD on several points. Without these specific coin(s) in hand for examination, pictures can only offer conjecture, regardless...
Clue # 1 for me...the sellers ID "bozobid". No that it means anything directly, but bozobid would not be the seller,or buyer, of choice for me....
Definitely. Thanks for the tip ;)
My aunt saved all her change from about 1982 - 86 and still has it all. She's let me go through the pennies and a few of the nickel/dime/quarter...
could be a weak struck penny....which are common
If you have Microsoft Office, you can use the Microsoft Office Picture Manager to crop and compress the image. The program has options for both...
I haven't been following coin talk all that long, but I try to share what I've learned about "odd colored" Lincolns.... The nature of copper...
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