If that is the actual color of the coin, it looks like it has been plated.
It is in a little rough shape, but still worth the silver value. I think that is just a little over a dollar at the present.
It looks coppery on the lettering and date on the obverse. I don't believe a cent with the copper plating missing should be shiny, all I have...
Yup, like CoinCorgi pointed out, 1963 to 1982 cents were brass.
The coin is probably just slightly heavy. It would only have to be .16 over to round up to the 12 grams, this would still be within mint tolerance.
Sure, lots of them. Quality control was not very good in some of the private mints making colonials. As long as they would circulate there was...
It is worth a quarter, just a normal quarter that has been painted. If painting made them valuable everyone would be painting their quarters!
So I take it that you now concede that it is just glue?
That would be a fake trade dollar. Genuine ones were not minted until 1873 so the date is a dead giveaway.
With the new better pictures, 100% no doubt, certain, glue, not an error. Soak it in acetone, don't dab at it, it won't hurt it. Positively, glue.
Try soaking the coin in acetone, I suspect the "error" will disappear. The acetone will not harm the coin.
Yes, zinc deterioration beneath the copper plating.
Cheap souvenir type fake coin. These are sold in tourist shops in Civil War historic areas.
You should definitely spend your money and have this rare one of a kind error authenticated!
Nothing in this post makes any sense whatsoever.
Yup, just damage.
Damaged coin, looks like it may have been subjected to heat. The dies that strike coins are flat, so a coin can not leave the dies dome shaped.
Worth a dollar, but nice to see one in circulation once in a while!
Definitely post pictures. There is no chance it is an original, they are all accounted for. It could be one of the early restrikes made from an...
I agree, that coin is just beat up. It is scratched, scraped, gouged, you name it.
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