You can also find the word pennies on the mint website, that doesn’t make it proper. Pure semantics, I’m not sure if anyone really cares.
He’s technically correct. Similar to how most inaccurately say penny as opposed to cent, doubled die is the correct term.
Nope, not a double die or a doubled die.
Some of my family’s collection was stolen in the late eighties and the home owners insurance only paid face value of the coins. Luckily we were...
Seems to me that there’s probably more that one person in the entirety of the internet that has an XF 1952-S LINCOLN cent as an avatar. I would...
Hope nothing is wrong with Seattlite. May I ask why you and others are searching cents for him, and can I help?
C-1, worth about 60-70.
I don’t think the scratch would prevent it from getting a straight grade, but it looks more in the XF40/45 range to me.
I was saying that the coin is earlier than an Indian head cent.
Earlier.
I got it, but can’t narrow it down at all.
That is a perfect example of why knowledge is so important to the hobby. Great finds, congratulations Jaelus.
Well then that’s horrible! We need to get to the bottom of this.
Kirkuleez lives in New Orleans, Kirkuleez understands the humidity problem. The oldest rolls in Kirkuleez’s box are from 1983 and Kirkuleez hardly...
If it’s a zincoln, then yes it deserves that treatment.
Kirkuleez asked his local bank for an empty cent box years ago to store rolls and thirty years later Kirkuleez still has this box full of rolls....
I’d call it MS-64 on the ‘63 and MS-65 in the ‘59 (based on the obverse alone). Both have a value of about three bucks when graded which will cost...
Well done, I’m about to get very merry very shortly. Just had my sons 18th birthday celebration (yep a Christmas baby). This year I’ll be...
Not my secret Santa gift, but a Christmas gift from my dad. I sure hope he didn’t overpay for it. Makes me nervous when my family members buy me...
This has the look of an SMS quarter to me, though I’m not much of a modern collector. Are there any known diagnostics that can be checked to see...
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