Just about anything you find interesting to you may be worth keeping
If I end up putting this old trouble maker on Ebay with the experts decision so it can be graded authenticated how many on here would bid for it....
It looks like another coin may have bumped against this one. Just because something on a coin is not raised don't throw it away.
Sorry folks about gettingit wrong in my posts. I was looking at the damaged spot on the cheek and didn't notice the thing that is supposed to be a...
I never said anything about something being retained. When a dropped letter or letters gets struck into a coin it falls out and off the coin...
this coin does seem to show some evidence of a light die clash or some of it may have been ground and polished off the die. This is the areas that...
I sure do agree with you , It would be hard to protect the future. I kept a few that were struck with a damaged die from the feeder finger...
That dark field around the mint mark is probably because this is in a area that would be protected by the D mint mark. The raised areas on coins...
I took another look and it looks like what you have is a struck thru coin. I looks like it was some kind of mint debris.
I looked at the photo and could not see the 5 but I want to add that a few coins do get struck through droppings from clogged dies and are called...
There are a few truly rare and awesome die clashes out there somewhere , Wejust have to find them . Some of them are so severe that the mint...
It is ok to keep them in my opinion if you like them. Back in 1983 I really goofed up and took probably a million dollars worth of 83 DDR cents...
So I must not be the only one that likes slashed die coins . So far I have not found any from the shield cents. I do have a few of the really nice...
The two half dollar coins with the struck thru areas looks like they were probably struck thru the same piece of mint debris or whatever it was....
Coins with die scratches are quite common on our modern coins. This is because the dies becomes damaged from different things and is ground and...
Don't that darn flipping coin ever wear out? Every where I look that thing is bouncing up and down .There is no need to get upset at me. I gave...
You are the one that seems to be the expert on here . Actually I don't know who the experts is on CT because I have only been back a little while....
I highly doubt if you have heard of everything even if you may think you have . They experimented with 17 different types of metal in 1965 for the...
IDN but he sure was a ugly looking little hippie
In 1965 the mint was making the transition from silver . I have heard that some experimental pieces were made from different types of metal ....
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