Your dime has environmental damage. Copper nickel coins exposed to the elements or buried will turn color like this.
It still would show up in the fields, not the devices.
It is stained, as pickin and grinin pointed out a clash is visible on the fields because they are the high point of a die not the devices which...
Just a badly damaged cent.
Impossible to see anything in that photo, but fingerprints on a coin are generally a bad thing indicating it has been mishandled.
That is definitely not a proof. There is really nothing about it that looks like a proof.
Is it the color that makes you think it is struck on a silver composition planchet? If so it is only toned, it is very common to see nickels...
Just damage on the 4. Worth a little over a dollar for the silver value.
Welcome to the forum, but unfortunately your coin is just damaged. Worth a cent if anyone will still accept it in this condition!
Welcome to the forum, and of course you can continue to post and ask questions.
Back to the coin, it is still just damaged. There is no way at the mint that words could be struck backwards. The coin has had a rough life and...
Nothing but a badly misused damaged quarter, no errors that I can see.
Looks like a normal nickel with a bit of damage.
Some nice wheat cents but nothing worth getting graded. The 1914 is the only one that might be worth more than a dollar, and that one is not...
The dealer may give you an opinion, but it would have to go to PCGS to get their attribution service. The PCGS dealer could send it to them for...
The dime is just damaged, it took a nasty hit.
No it is just damaged. Looks like glue or some other foreign substance, and another coin was pressed into it.
No way that happened at the mint, looks like somebody took a torch to it.
As I read the article it pretty well explains the difference between doubled dies and mechanical doubling. It does also explain that a doubled...
There are a multitude of different dates and mint marks that are plated. Spend a little time searching on this forum, and you will see many...
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