Sorry to hear this funkee, best of luck with your recovery.
What are you seeing? I see some cleaning and environmental damage, but no errors.
It’s a common circulation strike unfortunately, but you are an uncommon beauty in the world of numismatics. Either that, or you just understand...
That’s a spectacular example.
Thanks, I was wondering about that, but didn’t want to expose my ignorance of the process. Well I guess I just did...
Mike is very well respected in the variety world and here on CT. I’m sure that he did his research and that it’s solid, but we can just ask him...
On the Denver issue, the base of the 4 has very obvious doubling and is an easy diagnostic. This one looks like a hit to the one on a philly
If it’s from Mike, it’s true. I don’t even need to know the coin to proclaim this, but how about a link.
Rodney Dangerfield would tell the joke... “I once sent her a love letter and she corrected it.” Story of my life.
I actually got one in my change about two years ago, but dis one be much mo better worn down. Good on ya find. True story, but more for the...
Agreed. I gave a local jewler that was a red book guy a while back, but there was a bit more to the story. Basically I offered him pretty fair...
Maybe you can haggle with him, or perhaps you could slip him a greysheet. Don’t dwell on a loss too much, in this hobby you will have plenty of...
Here’s some cents for you. [ATTACH] You can see them better here. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/braided-hair-large-cents-date-set.296769/
Environmental damage. It probably spent some time in the ground. The difference in sound could be just about anything, but I would assume that it...
I had four with chop marks at one time and they didn’t bother me, but I just never liked them as much as the ones that weren’t marked and...
I’m not really liking how the obverse seems to have much less luster than the reverse. Seems like someone applied a dip to clean what looked nice...
I almost went crazy when my wife (now ex) came to a FUN show auction with me, I left with zero coins. You win, nice haul.
I don’t have any business strike of the last four years. That’s more like laziness and lack of interest in the modern business strikes. It’s also...
I have counted the electrons in each molecule of copper and have determined that this coin is a counterfeit. Nice images anyway.
So I’m sitting here donating platelets for the troops and finally had time to read this entire thread. There were several LOL moments, some WTH...
Separate names with a comma.