Actually, the "extra leaves" are curved die dents. Whether they are accidental or intentional cannot be determined with any degree of certainty.
It would not be worth slabbing, in my opinion. Its value is likely to be in the $25 - $35 range.
Siggi sent me an e-mail asking for my opinion on the coin seen at left. This is the first time I've seen the image. It's not a curved clip or a...
Looks like heavy die wear to me.
It shows the characteristic diagnostics of a retained cud. The internal margin shows vertical displacement and the design sits on a low plateau....
The featureless bulge on the obverse is not a rim cud. It's a cud, pure and simple.
This is a generic capped die strike. Your coin was struck through a late-stage die cap.
This doesn't look like a struck-in or a rolled-in object. There is no fissure surrounding the metal and it appears that it might dive beneath the...
As others have indicated, the coin at the top of this thread shows post-strike damage. Rascal's coin was vandalized as well.
Rotated die errors are quite common among 1864 2c pieces. Even ones with medal alignment are not all that rare.
Weighing the coins, and comparing them to normal comparison specimens, would be a start.
I think both specimens are questionable. Perfect impressions of the denticles and design rim are seldom, if ever seen in genuine examples.
As others have said, it's it's a partial collar/broadstrike with faint clash marks.
This is one of at least eight shattered obverse (anvil) dies known among 2007-P dimes. There are several stages in the breakdown of this...
While it could have been struck through a flake that detached from a struck cent, the clarity of the incuse lettering suggests it was more likely...
I never discussed this coin with BJ and had no idea that he had examined it. So his conclusions are entirely independent of mine.
I wouldn't necessarily be harder on ICG than some of the other services. I've found squeeze jobs in some top-tier slabs and every service...
Clash marks do not involve "one coin pushing onto another coin". It's about one die smacking into another die.
I'm sure everyone remembers this interminable thread: http://www.cointalk.com/t196652/ To my surprise, Rascal actually sent it to die...
It's a "dryer coin". The coin tumbled around in the fins of an industrial dryer for a prolonged stretch.
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