Congratulations @Gamerzilla2012
Nice gift! I wish I had the expertise to answer your question!
XF40. Ugly scratches on obv probably make it details.
I am not even close to being an expert, but it looks to me like blistering in the copper plating explains all the "doubled" places. Even if it...
They've also got a 66 that might only be worth as much as your house.
Personally, I don't trust the zinc cents to keep themselves from corrosion, even sealed and certified. An MS67 today might be an Uncirculated...
It sort of looks like one to me, so I can see what you are seeing. But as said above, it is the result of damage and the imagination.
Happy birthday!
Not an expert, but it looks like one to me.
I want in! You sure make things hard. I don't own any porcelain coins, so that is mighty tempting. But then I have a weakness for ancients....
Congrats! Thanks to you, Rob, for the contest!
What they said. By the way, if I owned a coin I even remotely thought might have any value above face, I would never touch it with anything like...
The problem with both "ping" and magnet tests is they only test the metal, which is fine if we are suspecting a contemporary counterfeit that only...
Only today they don't let that stop them from producing. Apparently they were wiser then than now.
I want in! As for which, it's a difficult choice. Of course I'd love such a nice Hamburger, but Claudius was such an interesting emperor I'd...
I can't speak to the irreplaceable cultural value of all of the pictured coins, but I doubt the 10 centimes from 189? and the "Republica Italiana"...
"The weight of your hemidrachm is good; maybe it is the picture, I just wonder why on the reverse, the star and the letter show almost no wear. "...
Wow! That is more than just a struck through. It is a $1 struck on a dime planchet with 10 cent dies!
No expert here, especially in the type, but my first impression was AU58. On closer examination I saw a couple of dings on the obverse, which...
I think Abe just slept on it crookedly last night. Looks like a chip, but as Mountain Man said, with zincolns plating issues are always possible.
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