What year is the coin? Thats a fun find right there.
Thanks for the humility lol I am guessing that maybe a coin roll could have been the culprit. I thought that these plasticizers came from the soft...
I like the lower half of the 69 scale involved in this equation.
I bet they are BU, fun to find rolls, looks like any chance of an extra finger are eliminated though. No formative years.
I don't use credit cards, call me old fashioned, I refuse to put a digital footprint on the web. They are definitely coins that I have seen...
There are only areas that show a die crack. and none of them are at the rim so, I would just say that there was a weakness, and everything broke...
I am flashing back to when I might have put these in the roll, I hope that you are wrong because the luster is amazing in hand. I wonder what...
If it is corrosion I believe the only thing that will help them is MS70, and thats liable to leave these with some wild colors.
I think that one should get a distilled water soak. and the other should get an acetone bath. Both would obviously get a q tip roll between...
Great photos as always!
@Collecting Nut the first three arrows from the bottom show the void between the surfaces, yes that usually means a die crack. But this image...
I think the idea is that an 8 Punch was grabbed first the 8 was punched and it was noticed to be the wrong number.
The first one shows some thickness to what ever is on the coin. PVC is also green.
Very neat Gorham. Definitely a retained cud.
Toning and improperly mixed alloy.
Hey @furham you were right. I would have never guessed that it was all lighting.
Please vote above and then below propose how you might conserve the surfaces. These and about 6 others came out of a roll of mixed wheats. These...
Thanks for chiming in Randy.
You will get it.
Much better photos, Those have luster, and show the cartwheel. I would grade that MS details because of the staple scratch across the face/ear....
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