It's tough to tell from the photos but it almost looks like it was covered in shellac at some point... there are a bunch of us here who know...
MS 62...maybe 63
Lower-ish AU
Stopped by a different branch on the way back from the market...I haven't seen any customer wrapped rolls in a long time...she told me that an...
I'm truly loving some of the reverse proofs...I've got quite an unexpected collection now because I'm hooked lol! [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Like they emphatically said NO! not nail polish remover :D Get good acetone, it's cheap. Use in a well ventilated place or outside!
Properly cleaning a coin you want to 'clean' is being done right if you take an approach of conservation rather than cleaning. Like Jeff said...no...
How cool is this? This is what you get when you treat people well for decades... I stopped at my Chase branch while out running errands just to...
Lol! Gotcha. Maybe two guys walking around corners were carrying dies... :smuggrin:
The dies contact each other leaving an imprint on one or both of the dies of the other die... and then go on strike more coins with that...
OP said it was the size of a dime...so that wouldn't shrink it...If you entirely remove the rim of a penny is it the same size as a dime? Maybe...
May have been sitting inside a coil of sorts and blasted with thousands of volts... probably on purpose. I'm guessing what you're seeing there is...
Awesome set!!! For those wondering in general... It's mainly because truly spectacular beautiful toning is indeed much rarer on 'brown' and darker...
Possibly shrunken via high voltage... I'm guessing the ridges you mention on the edge don't look even and nice like a dime.
Actually they can't, as long as you know how to identify authentic slabs and labels. Especially when it comes to the well known TPGs. There are...
The words of the listing matter... "repro" Even if they aren't clear it helps them get away with more. But ebay does not allow reproductions...
Saturday is penny day, today. Because. [ATTACH]
I stand corrected...got my terminology mixed up... ejection doubling causes a different type of damage entirely.
It looks like ejection doubling to me...a form of Machine Doubling. It's doesn't add any value, it's very common. Showing a sharp picture of the...
NOTE: Didn't mean to post right over @furryfrog02 I think we were typing at the same time lol! I finally was able to get just 2 rolls of halves...
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