I'm into Walking Liberty halves, and it kind of blows my mind that no denomination is offered on the coin. A beautiful coin, for sure!
My gut feeling: if I was going to use a coin as the basis of my I.D. disc, I'd use a large cent, not a valuable silver coin that some looter could...
I didn't really look for details; just trying to dig up all of the states. You wouldn't believe all the Tennessee and Georgia Quarters people drop...
They are readily accepted at all parking meters, toll booths and laundromats.
How about French aluminum coins of the '50's; what's the most valuable of those?
Bitte, ein Bit!
It took a couple of years, but I found all of the state quarters. The last one was Missouri!
Two add'l reasons for saying this: #1 the date makes it a possibility: #2 it's only a dime; not worth enough for a looter to desecrate someone's...
Were it not for the extensive wear on the obv. of the coin, which implies a great deal of circulation, it would appear to be an identification...
Yes, but your 1794 is the Liberty Cap version of the large penny and only 35,000 of the little buggers were minted.
Collection of highest grade B.S. Me'thinks he doth run on too much.
Perhaps in a shop vise......
Maybe pressed some way with metal window screen on top of it?
The question about the magnet was interesting and never was answered.
The contributor who suggested "stuck in a fuse box" likely has the right of it.
Maybe, if the cleaner was armed with some sort of wire brush.
After looking at the pennies in the pictures above, it was my instant and gut feeling that all of them were altered in circulation by various...
Maybe I am wandering off of the subject, but I have seen and held onto state commemorative quarters which had such a beautiful satin finish that...
I once was at the beach and found an otherwise intact Buffalo nickel turned absolutely brown due to salt water immersion. Also, while metal...
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