Here is one that looks like a dollar store item. LOL...
I did a quick check on ebay for something, but $299 was the closest I could find with free shipping. Everything else was higher or iffy whether...
Yes. The die get filled with grease and prevents the devices to be formed in the areas affected. Too bad it is on an older coin like yours. It...
Looks like a struck through grease error on the obverse.
I bought mine so time ago. (over 10 years) It would probably be in the $300+ range. Of course their are extras to edit, light and photograph...
Areas where there is a higher sulfur content in the air tend to yellow coin faster.
I use a better setup: [img]
Cents from Philadelphia don't have mint marks. That is just the norm for them. Appears the 1982 maybe a large date copper. If it was from this die...
The USB scope does have a camera in it. The images are real cheezy with the plastic lens and the poor lighting, wrong color. Been there and done...
Segs:MS 74 LOL
The wear on it reminds me of a coin I have: [img]
Is that a cud below the date?
Here is a copper nickel: [img] It was a copper planchet. Keeping is harmony with the thread's theme.
the symbol is right there after the 50.
See the rims on the coin's images? That is not wear, just nor formed on die. We know it was a full strike because of the gutter forming on the...
It is a struck through error. Some grease had found it way onto the die and prevented those letters from forming fully. Although it is an error,...
Looks like age will help it to tone more. Leave it in the plastic.
Looks like from I can see on several different images, there are at least two mint mark locations. (I always thought there was only one pair of...
The dansco folders also tone them after some time in there. [img]
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