We need a wow button, a simple like just doesn’t do it here. I really like the 93 and the 20.
The original (there is some debate to this) has a large berries reverse and is crazy rare and expensive. The first restrike has a doubled base if...
It’s hard to say what happened to it, either environmental damage, of it was in a fire at some point.
They are called bonded clusters, multiple cents got jammed in the dies as it kept striking. I’m not an error guy, so I’m not sure if there is a...
I’ve seen quite a few of them, some even certified examples. Imagine how they get that thing in a holder (they don’t, they usually put it some...
The S is for San Francisco and the M is the designer Hermon Mac Neil. I can’t tell you much else other than it was minted in 1917 or later as...
I don’t see any evidence of a harsh cleaning, to me, this is how they are supposed to look.
Thanks for taking this over Mike, youre the man. You can collect one scientific data point from me.
I don’t even find you that likeable. JK, a well deserved milestone.
VF-35. Close to XF, but without some luster remaining around the devices, it’s not quite there. What is the thornhead?
This is the only one that I’ve ever owned, but it was sold recently along with twelve double eagles and a 1870 proof seated dollar so that I could...
Very nice pickup. Of course I’m a bit partial to the New Orleans mint, I’ll be across the street from it this weekend.
The 82 is close, but it doesn’t quite make it to 65 for me.
Looks like a Philadelphia proof strike. Once they get a bit of wear, they are referred to as an impaired proof.
There’s no way to evaluate that coin from your image.
Here is the Coinfacts image of the known piece. I see one identifier on the dot between In.God that seems to have a die chip on the known piece...
There is one known that has a sandblasted antique finish, but this was a special strike (I assume experimental) piece. It does look similar to...
A bunch, probably hundreds of thousands, statehood quarters were silver, gold and platinum plated by the tv pitchmen and quite a few have made...
The radial cracking is fairly common on early and mid date large cents; not so much with the late date braided hair series. There was a thread her...
65 and 64, wow either I, or PCGS and NGC were really off on this one. I’m going with me being right of course.
Separate names with a comma.
