You saw one sell for this much, or you saw one advertised for this much on Etsy? There is a huge difference! Normal pocket change is regularly...
Nothing better than filling that last hole!
The Wood's coinages are really interesting, it is funny, his American coinage was rejected in America, his Irish coinage was rejected in Ireland...
The most likely reason for the coins not being accepted is their size. They were less than half the weight of their British counterpart. A rosa...
Only the manufacturer would know why they stamped them as they did.
Markay, I would suggest studying up on the minting process, on how errors occur, and how to tell them apart. You are using the terms doubled die...
Then you have the people coming here with their coin, just like one going for a lot of money on ebay!
The original patent called for the coins to be made of Bath metal which would contain a small amount of silver. Metallurgical test have shown no...
Jammed in a vending machine, somebody got bored and hammered it, caught in some kind of machinery. the list could go on and on. But there isn't a...
Except the error where I spelled copper as coper!
Acids or chemicals affect the coper core more than the copper nickel outer layer.
If you don't have a proper scale, take it to someone who does. Jewelers, coin dealers, re-loaders, you must know someone.
Thanks, hadn't seen that kind before!
Yep, let's see the label on the slab.
I believe if it was struck through it wouldn't show the damage on the reverse, if it was still in the dies it could not "bulge out" like that.
Welcome to the forum! What you have there is one very badly damaged nickel!
Dryer coin or some kind of damage of the sort. I don't see it being on a nickel planchet.
It lost weight due to the acidic environment it was in, hence the environmental damage. Read oldhoopster's post carefully, he covered it well.
IN GOD WE TRUST is almost obliterated, I can't really see anything about it. Not sure what you mean with the other two terms, cud coverage or...
As stated, the 1972 D was squeezed in a vise, the zinc cent looks like it was heated to the point that the zinc started to melt.
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