If you look carefully, the word is “Sluft”. The “L” is clearly lower case and the end “t”, as well as the end “t” of “cent”, are both carefully...
No doubling. I am totally sure that is normal wear that flattened the numbers of the date…imo…Spark
…actually, it is die deterioration, although around the date appears to be some strike doubling, but the pictures of the computer screen make any...
When you are an old fart like me, you will have seen many instances of coins in car/truck drink cubbies that are used to keep spare change. They...
…beat me to it…I was going to say “a die error produces a coin variety”…Spark
Your gut instinct is correct. The lettering is larger precisely due to being smashed. Compare it to another 1979 D.
All of your pictures are out of focus.
If you allow 1 million coins struck per die pair, and the mintage of 1.6 billion over 2 years, then the mint used 1600 die pairs. …somewhere in...
There are many posts here at Coin Talk that detail the futility of saving copper coins with the intent to melt them. You need to read them. In...
I can’t tell you what brand to buy, but the cheaper usb microscopes usually have 2 megapixels and don’t last very long. At 2MP they have horrible...
In a related effort of late, my previous task was 79 coins sent to me from my younger son Douglas (he’s 42) who is the Executive Chef for a...
I’m working on a new coin jar, 1,5,10 and 25 denoms, range of dates 1960 to 2010. Yesterday and today worked 1960, 1964, two 1964-D, 1967 and...
Please explain this “ghost” thing…TIA…Spark
It should weigh 2.5 grams which means it is a Zincoln. Therefore, the E/AMERICA issue would lend itself to being a linear plating blister. Ipso...
@Laplion …here is a great explanation of the difference: Go to the “Coin Chat” forum here at Coin Talk. Find the post “Die Stage vs Die State”...
@Joseph008 ….as you can see, there are a lot of things you could do with these rolls…but just for grins I want to do 1 exercise on one of your...
I don’t see any doubling…that’s MD on the GO/GOD. Try posting a close-up of the eye area, like you did for the date…Spark
@Belroar21 …First off, Welcome to Coin Talk! You will find our members very helpful and receptive to you. However, we as a group do not know...
Don’t go away unhappy…both of those log cabin Lincolns have doubled die varieties, so check those out before you give up…imo…Spark edit to add:...
A close-up is needed but It is probably a plating blister. It does not look like DDR-008 at VV…imo…Spark
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