They really have not defaced the coin, just applied some paint to the surface. It is done all the time, Barrack Obama commemorative coins were...
Looks like they took a coin and painted on the yellow banner and colored the maple leaf, not an official mint release.
Are all of those scratches, gouges and scuffs on the coin or on the plastic?
From what I could tell it is a religious medallion, the front shows St George as the patron saint of something, the rear shows security in a storm...
It looks like a condition called slivers (I used to work in quality control at a steel mill). I occurs when during the rolling process, bits of...
I have never seen the top coin, but the dragon coin has several problems 1) lettering above and below dragon too large. 2) on the reverse the...
Hmmm...$13,750 for $5.50 worth of common wheaties. (If you think he will ever send out a 09s, or any other key date I will kiss your A__.) I wish...
This one is proving to be a difficult little SOB to track down, anybody have any ideas?
Looks like a "poor man's double die" to me....
Is that dirt in some of the cracks, or some type of slag incursion? I am referring to down by the chin and up on the forehead, the crystalline...
Russian 5 Roubles
I am fairly sure that it's Indian. Try checking out www.zeno.ru I remember seeing some square coins listed somewhere in the Indian section there....
1616 was well before machine presses were invented the first screw type presses were in the 1650's, this doesn't even remotely look like a hand...
Many years ago I got a large cent that had a pretty bad bend, My father used a vice with lead sheets bent over on each of the jaws and...
Back in the day when many of the coins were pierced or holed. Women had no property rights, except for their jewelry, it was the one thing that...
You were watching the same program as I was.:D
I am not sure, the reverse appears perfect. But the obverse has some bag marks (cheek, nose and by the eye) and the fields have some scuff marks....
Mercery Dime Standing Liberty Quarter Walking Liberty Half
My example was meant to point out the extent of the wear, Half of liberty is gone, almost all of the hairlines gone, the berries (or olives) in...
Counterfeited in the day , ( 1100 AD) or Counterfeited today, that is a modern forgery?
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