I'd grade it SOLD. Somebody got a nice coin for the money.
I, too, like the aesthetics, but history is much more important, and I believe most collectors would have to say that deep down. If it were pure...
A plating bubble, a piece of corrosion in the zinc under the copper, like the one to the right of the Memorial which has popped.
This note appears to have been issued in April of 1945, at the end of WWII, at the beginning of a period of hyperinflation. Before the war, it...
The experts above are right, as normal. All the Zincolns are bad about corrosion, damage, and plating issues, especially the early ones. As the...
I'm no expert, especially on Morgan varieties, but is there any known variety of 83CC with that dot after the E in ONE? If not, then for sure it...
There are several reasons to switch them out of the original into a different holder. First, as already mentioned, you may find a different...
No, not 001, but a very nice DDO nevertheless. Nice find!
Man, all those rare dateless buffaloes I passed on and spent in my youth! I could have been rich. At least the one in the link can, in fact, be...
They look fake to me. As mentioned, the sharpness just isn't there, although bad photos can cause that. Particularly the portraits do not look...
I find the piece very interesting, and while the reference by willieboyd2 answers many questions, it leaves me with other questions unanswered....
The UK has had a huge problem with counterfeit pounds. I have read a sizeable percentage of those in circulation were counterfeit. I wonder if...
The 1982 was cut, but more likely with metal shears than scissors. Ordinary scissors would not easily do that. I'm certainly not expert, but the...
I agree it is fake, although not an expert. The whole story line and the information supplied by experts in this thread are enough, plus it just...
The BB mint mark indicates the Strasbourg mint.
The French Republic adopted a calendar setting Year 1 as beginning September 22, 1792, so year 2 would start Sept 22, 1793, etc. That means year...
Thanks for the expert opinions. Since it is not my nickel, I felt I had to ask.
I'm thinking environment, too, but I doubt it was found with a metal detector. The person asking me to look at the coins is in her late 70s and...
A friend asked me to look through some coins of hers. Most were easy to identify for her. (Including the "Liberty Head Dime" she thought she had...
Does CC mint mean China China?
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