It's very expensive to get a coin graded. If it is MS 65 it's a $6 coin and you will have spent A LOT more than that. Yes if it comes back 68 you...
The 1902 looks like it was hammered. Made it thinner and longer/misshapen. The other coin looks as it it was ground down. And got rid of most of...
Yes looks like staining. If you weigh it and it comes in at 5.67 you know it's not missing even a partial clad. Always weigh a coin first that you...
None of the coins in 1965, 1966 and 1967 have a mint mark.
Denver never made proofs. Nice coin. Put it in a 2x2 flip to protect it.
Your scale is not accurate to hundredths or even tenths of a gram. While this only goes to tenths I have used it for years for coins and precious...
I understand about Europeans not grading coins. My post was meant as more protection for the buyer, rather then to shell out a couple thousand...
So looking at the original thread, it is a cent that was struck on an already struck dime. How does an already struck dime get into the cent...
Is it the same size as a dime? What does it weigh? Better photos of both sides could help. Very often these things are faked. Hard to tell...
Acetone doesn't clean coins. It's a solvent that doesn't harm metal. It can remove organic deposits. Sometimes if it removes organic deposits, the...
Nice stuff J Cro.
If you clean it you will ruin it. I don't know about the grade? VF?
When you get to very high grades (67, 68) the coins are almost perfect, with tremendous luster, very minimal "bag marks" coins that bump into...
I think under the "new" definition it qualifies as a binary, and doesn't have to be all ones and zeroes. Binary meaning just 2 of the same numbers...
Counterfeit. They didn't have any wheat reverses in 1959 and if they did, more than 1 coin would have been produced by high speed machinery. Yes...
Why wouldn't the owner have it certified as genuine by a top grading company prior to auction? Once you get into 4 figures I think this should be...
Such a bad repair on the hole. $50?
I think from the style of the S you could figure out what decade the coin is from. With a bright light and a loupe, you could also look for very...
It's not the good one. And there is no melt value for pennies.
This is a fallacy. Copper has never been higher than $4.63. If it was legal to melt pennies for their copper it would have to reach a price of $6...
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