Exactly, they are cranking out these cents in the billions each year. You can't keep up that pace and expect the coins to reach MS 70. Also,...
The grainy texture in the photos certainly looks as though the penny spent some time in vinegar for cleaning.
Exactly, if the design is lacking you could put all the color on the coin you wanted and it'll still be ugly.
Reading current articles about the series and seeing proposed designs, I am actually excited about the series. I think it allows for vastly...
Anyone think it could have been for a money clip or something. I've seen a Buffalo nickel that came out of a money clip setting that looked...
Agreed. I work in retail and we can take mutilated bills only if both serial numbers are present AND they match. If not they get rejected at the...
I only have a phone camera but this close up of the lower bust displays the mottled discoloration. Can be seen best when tilting the coin.
Picked up my latest mint purchase, the 2019 silver proof set with bonus reverse proof penny. Unfortunately it looks as though these too have the...
I always have a running list of coins I would like to get and try to acquire 2-3 of those a year as they are generally expensive and II hav to...
Would it be by state? Or would it be a specified number of issues over a couple years?
My guess is the coin spent some time in household chemicals which altered the brass color, hen was wiped clean for spending.
Here in the South they have those too, but not for cans, for Christ! Little pamphlets that look like folded currency and when you open it, gives...
My critisism of the only local shop near me is they deal primarily in bullion. Many items aren't priced and they always have someone in there...
The tell-tale sign is the edge.... If it's shiny like the rest of the coin, it's probably reprocessed or "recoated". The original sheets were...
Yes, as stated before, US coins are minuted in coin alignment and most world coins are minted in medal alignment. I have a modest collection of...
A quick research....84.4 million minuted that year! They changed her portrait to an older version in 1985... This was found in the NGC website....
This just seems like bad business. If a person payed to have a coin accurately graded and slabbed, then you expect the coin AND slab to...
Entry Post! Krugerrand. The oldest numismatic item I own is not a coin, but a French jeton from Nantes, dated 1783. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Upon...
Working in retail I have seen literally hundreds of notes like this with various stamps. Some look Arabic and some Chinese characters. Simple...
I'm extremely nearsighted (opposite of you), so I just remove my glasses to use the magnifier, but I can tell you, a loupe with a larger lense is...
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