most of the common ones pre60 i throw back and most are really worn anyways plus the value is very minimal the ones i usually throw back are...
Bob - it sounds like you have the regular bronze(copper) 1864. a picture would help out alot. my opinion is i would go by the weight and...
Ziggy - is this DDR on the 1982 small date coppers ?? i cant find the article from coin world.
The best way i think to tell the 3 different kinds of 1864s is first to see if its the copper-nickel type - the best method to tell if the coin...
take a look at the pics on Smalldollars.com http://www.smalldollars.com/dollar/page29.html the odds of finding one is very small (approx 1 to...
well vending machine is sorta vague - i should of said self-serve machine but the vending machine at my post office takes pennies plus the...
i think it will stay the same unless stores want to start rounding down if the price of zinc goes way up then maybe but vending machine...
its looks dug up ! coins left in the ground get that dark look here is a 1973 quarter that someone found - kinda the same look...
those lower relief halves (89 & newer) also seem to me to be thinner than the higher relief design Kennedys but are virtually the same thickness ....
the exception is proofs and 65-67 SMS - no FS for these
Ive never heard of any Cheerios penny being a wide am variety but here is one way to tell but this one is not a wide am either Snowman [IMG]
i have one of these with the date 12/31/74 stamped on it its gold plated commemorating ownership of gold again Thomaslong - is your penny gold...
its because the mint never sold any mint sets in 1982 and 1983 and not many were saved either. This also applies to 82,83 dimes & quarters with...
i thought that the term non-numismatic coins are worth & sold at face value and numismatic ones are worth more than face value but it depends on...
my first thought when i saw your picture is that the gouges was done with prunning cutters .... that would be how you would get a even cut across...
I think they will be hard to find in circulation but not impossible- if they were all sold to collectors they wouldnt be rare. But sounds that...
you only need to find the other 49 to make a complete set back during the bicentennial year 1976 - some companies sold 50 pennies with each of...
with all the credit card news today- maybe the CC companies will start charging more over the usual 4-5% for business to use CC money. I bet that...
it always seems that i cringe when i hear someone want to melt their coins because they are common. and i'm the one looking for these types for...
getting a certain minted coin from the mint's Direct ship program has no basis of where you live. it just depends what they have in stock. I...
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