Well, you've overcome one hurdle, but there are others up ahead. Given that your coin would apparently be quite valuable if it were real, I would...
The first thing you can do is give it the "magnet test". If the coin sticks to a magnet, then it's fake.
Unfortunately, I am not an expert on Chinese coins. I basically used my knowledge of the Japanese pronunciations of the Chinese characters to...
Eureka, I found it! http://www.ichengxuan.com/antiques/38139/
There are a couple of discrepancies I can't reconcile On one side of your coin, there is 商郁森盛 and on the other side, there is 重壹両銀 I can't yet...
You're right, there are some characters that are different. I will have to take a better look at your coin.
Here's a website about your coin in a little more understandable English. If your coin is real (and that's a big IF), it might be worth a...
The English translation is atrocious, but I have located your coin at this Chinese web site:...
Looks like it could be a broadstruck error to me.
Nice '74-S Ikes!
It does look like it could be an acid job. The acid treatment of the 18-S that I had posted in the other thread is a little more obvious than the...
But the seller said he got it out of a bag of Mississippi quarters from the Mint-- meaning that it was supposed to be uncirculated.
No, it's not. I guess I should clarify. By "sulfur-laced", I meant that the paper itself had a high natural sulfur content, but I didn't put any...
Thanks. I also got this '73-S clad proof from the same dealer at the same time. For the equivalent of $3.60 each, I couldn't pass them up :)
Think of it this way-- say you have an antique mirror, but part of it has turned black. So you decide to spray paint it with a silver color to...
Well, it's definitely not AT! I bought it white in 1989, kept it in a sulfur-laced coin envelope until I got my 7070 album in 1994, and it has...
There are some organizations like NCS (Numismatic Conservation Services http://www.ncscoin.com/ ) that can professionally clean coins. But in the...
OK, here are a couple more pictures of the 1937 Mercury taken with natural lighting:
Not a bad collection of Walkers for melt price :smile
Thank you, everyone, for your kind comments. I was so knocked over by this coin when I saw it yesterday I just had to share it. An airtite is...
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