Pictures a bit blurry, but it may be a small die chip. No added value for that, also the coin appears to have been harshly cleaned, if it did...
I think there is something there. Varieties are not my thing, but could it be a re punched mint mark?
I forgot about him, he posted pretty regularly for a while.
1916, Woodrow Wilson is president, war is raging in Europe but the US has yet to enter, the Titanic and Lusitania disasters are fresh in peoples...
Yup,that is one of the ones I was looking at, and there are other smaller ones. It is the same coin.
Clear photos of the whole coin before and after would certainly help, but I can see some small marks in exactly the same location in both...
Agreed, I don't know much about the collection but it was a big Connecticut collection with an amazing number of R7 varieties and condition census...
Absolutely, sometimes you have to. A coin you don't expect to find pops up and there is no way to tell when you might find another.
I guess it is not much of a pedigree, but I won one Connecticut copper in Stack's and Bowers sale of the Twin Leaf collection March 1 of this...
It is a "Texas cent" you can make them by putting a cent between two pieces of leather and pounding it with a hammer. It enlarges the coin...
I don't see how it could be overstruck on only one side, you need two dies to strike a coin.
Well, looks like 8 cents, maybe a couple more on the edge of the picture. Too blurry to see much more, look like 1969 s? One is a 1970? Normal...
Still the only possibilities are a bezel or it has been plated. Either way it has just been altered by someone, no numismatic value.
I'm jealous! Probably a good month before I'll be able to get into the ground!
There are really only two possibilities. Bezel, or it has been plated, most likely with nickel which is magnetic.
It really does look like a bezel in the one photo.
Yup, lettering is normal, not mirrored.
No one else ever makes a mistake? For instance, "I" should be capitalized, "actually" as the first word of a sentence should be capitalized, and...
Unfortunately looks like they are giving you a hard time over there now.
What do you see that look like errors?
Separate names with a comma.
