They really are trashy.
Probably already is. More bang for the buck cent with my wishing well idea. ;)
Yup.
Exactly. It was heavily scraped, exposing the inner zinc core. Roadkill. :( We'll be kind to you, but something was not kind to that poor...
It's mainly a thing with the 1943 steel cents, which tended to rust. Many got reprocessed (replated), to look better. I can't tell from the pics...
It'll be a while yet before I run out of holey coins. [IMG]
Gold dollars often got holed. [ATTACH]
Speaking of Byzantine holeys… Zeno (emperor of the East, A.D. 476-491). Gold Solidus. Thessalonica, A.D. 476 or later. Pedigreed to the famous...
Agreed, though I don't recall if @Eduard does that much with third-party certification. Are you in Europe, Eduard? (Where did I get that idea?...
Still in flux, with a good bit of stuff (particularly Ancients) off at NGC right now, and images not done on some of my newer US additions, but...
I was completely unfamiliar with this type until now.
Interesting. That's not just wear, or the adjacent letters would have been affected. Wait for a more qualified answer, but I would tend to...
Clueless. Sorry. Neat looking piece, though.
I'm not qualified to judge the authenticity of your coin, though I will say it doesn't look glaringly bad to my semi-uneducated eye at first look....
476,000. If I win, send the Morgan to @Abramthegreat.
... aside from not being really worth the considerable expense of slabbing, unless they're some special variety I'm unaware of, or you just felt...
They look OK to me?
Either one is! I’ve never had one.
True, I suppose. I’d have a hard time judging a clipped piece from a crowded, undersized flan on something like this, I guess, but regardless, I...
Of course. And they’re not necessarily suggesting that, though in their case it is a remote possibility. (Not so with my coin found in Georgia.)...
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