The little ridge on the rim near the date is part of the misalignment.
The question was where would a "copper plated" silver planchet come from. The mint certainly never used them. No way for that to happen.
No, absolutely no chance. Where would a copper clad silver planchet come from? It is a completely normal copper plated zinc cent.
It weighs more because it is thicker, the coin was struck from a slightly thick planchet. Just as coins struck from thin planchets will be lighter.
Maybe errors just aren't your thing. There are other ways to collect coins, maybe pick a series and work on a date and mintmark set.
Nice! I finally found my first flying eagle last year, no hole but even worse shape than yours otherwise!
I've found 2 in Pennsylvania!
I guess I have to admit defeat, that one is too far gone to ID from the pictures. Good thing about Connecticuts though, if you want a better...
It's not a Hercules head. If you are trying to identify using the Red book, bare in mind, they only show a few of the more prominent varieties....
I collect connecticut coppers by die variety so I'm kind of partial to that one!
I just can't see anything with the weird, distorted, elongated pictures. Can you post some normal close-ups of the whole coin?
Normal quarter that has been in some kind of acidic or corrosive environment. The copper core has been more affected than the outer copper nickel...
What is it about this nickel that makes you think it may be silver instead of the usual copper nickel composition?
Nice! Quite possibly the two go hand in hand, the dies slamming together may have started the damage resulting in the cud.
Nothing wrong with microscopes, but be sure you know what to look for before getting one. Every coin has small anomalies and a microscope will...
Nice, you're way ahead of me, I'd have to count but I think I'm about halfway.
Love the 1839, such an interesting year for varieties!
Yep, I didn't click more images so was only seeing three examples of fs-801. Of the three, I am only seeing the machine doubling you picture on...
Well, here is the issue. PCGS shows three different examples of FS-801, one of their examples also exhibits machine doubling and that is the...
This still bugs me. I have always been interested in the presidents, and this is the only modern series I planned on completing, now it is...
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