What's inside the clasp under the stone?
Looks like welking slag
It looks to me like the residue left from a piece of scotch tape across the Obv. You can see both edges of the tape on the Obv.
I agree .... DDD
Besides the ding, it also may be a slightly off-center strike.
In my last post, where I said that it didn't leave the mint like that ... it was tongue-in-cheek about the permanent marker, not the "struck-through".
Hard to tell anything from the pics. The coin has seen better days since circulation.
It must have cost a fortune to have it certified (if it was). It didn't leave the mint like that
I'm not sure if it is a clip or not. I don't really see a Blakesley effect on the coin. Hard to tell from the pics, because the Obv side had the...
It's best to go through all of the info from Wexler. MD is machine or mechanical doubling, caused by the die being loose in the holder. Here is...
Nope, die deterioration doubling and maybe a little MD as well. You need a magnified image to even see it.
Damaged coin, PMD, that someone tried a science experiment on to plate or dip it with maybe gold wash. Most of the wash has worn away.
It doesn't look like a D/C to me. Is it incuse(recessed)? I've never seen a D/C that randomly appears in the middle of the field. They start at...
Yes, cleaned or polished plus the lighting/photo angles.
FINALLY, with the last '55, a TRUE D/D, and not MD, or deterioration, or other worthless doublings. Nice Zoid!.
All of them are descriptions for people who can't see, but believe everything written. They deserve to be taken to the cleaners, both of them ......
Can you show the right foot of the bear. There are fakes that are known as "camel-toed" toonies that are Chinese fakes and that may be one. Even...
I don't understand micrscope pics of US pocket change
Yep, look like physically ground down on purpose. To make a shim?
It looks like a gold fleck attached to a piece of quartz
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