I'd try putting it in evaporust, just to see what happens.
Most of the fakes we see, and easily recognize, are the cartoonish mass produced ones from China. Thanks for keeping us on our toes!
Most likely environmental damage as explained in this thread. To be sure, you can start your own thread and post pictures.
I think my next purchase will be a NJ 6-C. Not a terribly rare variety but an important one, the C reverse was also used for some rare pattern...
Colonial and state coinages are actually a good area to pick up very historic coins at decent prices. I regularly find R5 Connecticut coppers in...
No such thing as a bad New Jersey copper, I love them all! It is a 46-e, one of the most common varieties, but often found on rough planchets....
Sure looks fake. Thickness will tell you in a hurry, the normal fakes are usually way too thick. Should be pretty much paper thin. There is a...
I would love to get into Presidential campaign material, if I wasn't into so many things already! Thanks for sharing.
That's a cast fake for sure.
No, the coin hasn't been polished, the die it was struck with was!
Heavily polished die, losing some of the details.
You are definitely correct, there is no way it can be a sms cent. Unless you buy one already slabbed, there is no way you will get a 1964 sms coin.
With the state coinages the value is all about the rarity of the particular variety. If it was a Connecticut or New Jersey I could surely give...
No, exactly the opposite. The reverse is pushed out from the pressure on the obverse. This could not happen if the coin was in the dies, had to...
Looks to be a genuine coin but intentionally damaged somehow. A strikethrough would not show corresponding damage on the other side.
Please explain how this can happen in the minting process. If you don't like the free and correct answer here, spend your money and send it to...
While there are in depth books on many of the different series of pre Federal coins, Whitman Encyclopedia of Colonial and Early American Coins is...
There are 7 different reverse die varieties with the small closed S's and 9 with the wide open S's. Yours has the wide open S's, I don't know if I...
Have you weighed the coin? I bet it isn't the correct weight.
Well, there are actually several types of doubling. In addition to doubled die and machine doubling, there can be die deterioration doubling,...
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