No, it works off ambient light or the flash on your phone. The picture I showed is ambient light.
Nathan it would help to have a clear picture of the obverse and reverse.
Interesting. It looks like (to me) that you have two things going on here. First, a worn die (die deterioration) and second, a misaligned die. Neat!
I think you are seeing worn die issues. Die deterioration. JMHO
Yes and no. Centralized single squeeze doubling seems more like MD to me and single squeeze peripheral doubling seems more like true DD. Of course...
It’s MD. Flat shelflike with device reduction.
No, it’s die deterioration doubling, DDD. It’s from a worn die.
Yes, it’s PMD.
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If I had a single cent for every coin I thought was an error and it turned out not to be... I’d be a wealthy man. Just do what I did.... [ATTACH]
I’m not sure exactly how that happened, but it’s definitely PMD. Post mint damage.
I bought one of these for $20. [ATTACH] It works fairly well. [ATTACH]
I keep all that I find but you can buy nice uncirculated examples for most dates and mint marks for $5 or less.
Starting in 2002 the mint produced halves in lower amounts and were not released for circulation. These are called NFIC, not issued for...
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