That is environmental damage, your nickel spent some time in the ground.
The $10, $20 and $50 are the only serial numbers I can see and they are all known fakes. The 1000 is just a poor fake. Add to that the $5 is a...
The $10, $20 and the $1000 are also fakes. Looks bad for all of them.
Yes this is definitely a fake. Unfortunately ebay doesn't seem to have any knowledgeable numismatists on staff and only acts on the more obvious...
While theoretically it is possible, you are not going to find one in circulation. These come from proof sets.
Definitely damage.
What is unusual about your quarter? 1970 quarters are common and nothing special.
If it was damaged to that extent wouldn't the zinc be showing through?
Probably spent more on cleaning materials than the face value of the cents!
The real answer is, environmental damage. By no means are all of the "copper nickels" on the forum dated 2002. Spend a few minutes searching and...
They are in the original mint cellophane, must have been cut from mint sets. Don't know why he had so many of one year though.
I've seen a man patch an old tractor radiator by soldering a cent over the hole.
Hmmm, looks like a large date to me.
That is ridiculous, of course you can ask questions that is the whole point of the forum! You seem as if you genuinely want to learn and you can...
It is in good shape for a 22 year old coin, and well struck. I assume you mean shiny? Shinny is a sort of hockey game. Maybe someone had a...
1792 what? Not many US coins made in 1792, just patterns I believe. Also I think the dies may have all been hand made, meaning there couldn't be...
How do you know they cleaned them? Did they say they cleaned them, or did they come back with their opinion that they had been cleaned?
This is one issue where it can not be ruled fake because it is cast, the originals were cast not struck! There is a lot of mystery about the New...
It is an altered cent. It can be done a couple of ways, by heat or by placing between two pieces of a softer material like leather and pounding...
Perfectly normal circulation strike.
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