Well the weight is spot on, I see the ring you mention on the obverse but that would have nothing to do with the planchet it was struck on. I...
Probably worth a couple of dollars.
I was simply asking what you see that makes you think so. Just from a picture it appears perfectly normal. Is there something about the weight...
Why? Looks perfectly normal.
No, it wouldn't flatten the rim. The same reason that the lettering isn't flattened, the softer leather keeps it from happening. The only way a...
Definitely not a proof.
Looks to be environmental damage, clad coins look like this when buried for a period of time. It can not be struck on a cent planchet because a...
One of the first coins in my collection, a gift from my uncle when I was a kid. I still have it and it will always be a special coin to me....
Think about it, if parts of the design are under the rim, then the coin had to have been struck before the rim was pushed out over the design....
There are hundreds of ways a coin can be damaged, but zero ways that could have happened at the mint. Read up on the minting process and it will...
Just looks worn and beat up. Lots of things can happen to a coin that old.
Looks like it might be a little bit of damage, hard to say for sure. I think it just happens to look a little bit like an S.
No, I have the Whitman Encyclopedia of Colonial and Early American coins. I did recognize it as one of the 33 obverses though. Those and the...
I think it is 33.19-Z.2 but not positive. Check it out closely, I may have time to look later.
Not seeing any errors, picture is a bit blurry though.
No error, just damaged. Welcome to the forum though
They are fascinating coins. Because it was a clandestine operation, much of what is "known" about it is conjecture. The Whitman Encyclopedia of...
It is just some sort of environmental damage.
This is one of the cheap souvenir type replicas sold in tourist shops Civil War areas.
No, nothing in the minting process could make marks like that, just damaged.
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