I wonder if it was kind of a test to imprint the coin and not damage the obverse?
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I have really enjoyed this thread. I now see why people say buy the coin not the holder and why the TPG's can sometimes vary so much on a coins...
I think that the reverse is the edge of a vice's jaws. It was place on the vice and some one hit it with a socket head screw or something along...
http://cgi.ebay.com/Old-silver-necklace-dollars-naja-100-mercury-dimes-/360268670971?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53e1afa7fb The...
Nice find looks like a double strike maybe from another coin stuck in the die. God I hope Carlos doesn't read this he will be finding all kinda of...
People break up proof sets all the time. Ice
does it have the same curvature of a penny? Ice
I have complained about dead presidents on our coins more than once. I'm not a big fan of the shield 1c I just thought they could have done more....
Why would you straighten material before you melted it they run it through the rollers again? And then we keep the rollers for 100 years and keep...
I got 5 of the sheild cents yesterday. 3 at the liquior barn and 2 at the gas station. I have all the 2009 cents from circulation. Tim
Carlos are you saying we are rolling out the palnchents using rollers from the colonial coin era. I am going to need some of what you have been...
In the past I took my detector with me but here lately I have just been working 12-16 hr days and am too tired to detect maybe I need to cut t he...
In the state of KY we have a salesman and me so I am always on call the nearest employee to me is almost 6 hrs away. I am pretty much a one man...
The state bought some old houses in my area to widen the road the tore down the houses and I have to get down there and hunt the yards one of my...
I've only been detecting two years I haven't been out much this year same thing work, weather, Phenmonia, and injuries have kept me from hunting.
I see you detect I swing an white's MXT
So if I find a black state quarter I can say it's missing it's clad layer? I have dug a whole bunch of error coins maybe I'll but a few 25c coins...
Most of thoses coins were cleaned
I did take calculas and we had these things called slide rules so you can see why we sometimes say kids these days don't appreciate what happened...
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