@DoubleDiamond IMO, you are squandering a wonderful opportunity. Many of the members answering your questions have decades of numismatic...
Here's is an older pic of some porcelain I was organizing and attributing. BTW: technically, most of these including the red/brown pieces aren't...
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Many German notgeld (paper, metal, and porcelain) were made to sell to collectors. Similar to beanie babies and the baseball card craze of the...
Your coin is environmentally damaged. A nickel planchet cannot fit into the coining chamber for a cent, so even if you think the indistinct...
It's a dryer coin. This is considered damage, not an error Here is a good explanation. http://www.error-ref.com/?s=Dryer+coin BTW: the...
@Silvergmen here is a link to a thread that will give you some history on @goldcollector I understand your sentiment in encouraging collectors,...
Not sure where you're doing your research, but some of the comments like 100% copper, 88.5% silver, 6.30 grams are completely wrong and you would...
@-jeffB Many of these San Francisco Proof “assisted errors” from the 70’s first showed up in a sale by the by State of California (I can’t recall...
I'll tell you what I think and how to confirm if it's real or fake after I hear your input. :facepalm: From your post. I'll tell why later...
@Muzzman You still haven't said if it was dug, or if it was a surface find? Generally, if you say it was found metal detecting and don't clarify...
Do you think it could be possible that the coins could have been exposed to poor environmental conditions prior to being rolled? Maybe while...
NO! It’s not ZnCl2. The zinc core would have to exposed for that to occur and there is no indication of the copper plating missing from your...
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The Corning Museum of Glass also has some older encased coins in larger pieces in their exhibit. I recall seeing a bust dime in the base of of a...
The zinc core is corroding. You know what happens to the fender of your car when it gets dented. Zinc will react as well when the copper plating...
Exactly. If the specific gravity of the base metal used for a fake is different than silver (or another precious metal), a coin cannot have both...
I also agree that it appears to be plated. Nickel plating will cause it to stick to a magnet, especially a strong one. In addition, the weight...
Does it match anything on www.doubleddie.com, www.varietyvista.com or http://lincolncentresource.com ?
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