Mike if this coin does turn out to be a real mint error and only struck twice one of the dies must have come loose somehow and tilted over on a...
this is called struck thru grease areas . it is extremely common on our newer coins. actually what it is that gets on the dies is a mixture of...
There are bonded coin die caps in about every US coin denomination . these were mostlikely smuggled out of the mints. you can google bonded...
no need for better photos , the coin is PMD like Treashunt said. it has been hit on the reverse side with the metal being pushed thru to the...
I don't know much about confederate notes but I'm starting to think that all of the notes that are blank on the back was some type of novelty...
this is called a blob mintmark. a tiny piece of the die that makes the opening in the mintmark has broken off the die.
is this one of the coins with the extra pod on the leaf stem? I don't know much about Canadian errors.
welcome to the forum . I can't see this area good enough to tell what it is. is the thing that looks like a S incuse or is it raised like the D...
die chips that have been flattened down a little from being in circulation
from reading some of your posts I believe you may not know what a doubled die coin is and how they become a doubled die. here is a link from the...
it is a die chip
Matt this is enough to make a person to want to give it up . I sure have slowed down and about ready to get rid of all my collections. I lost a...
If this coin will not stick to a magnet then there is a possibility that it may be the real thing. maybe ever who weighed it got the weight wrong....
Mike the coin that belongs to Matt may make you pull your hair out then you would be bald like me. LOL I have looked at this one probably 20...
nice piece you have here. congrats I saw a USA group a while back similar to your and there were what looked like a whole handful piled up and...
there are some unplated cent coins that were actually made this way by the mint. there are also lots more out there that was done like you said. a...
like non cents said , could be a unplated cent. this is what our new cent coins look like without the super thin copper coating.
hey crooked sellers have been doing this for years. do you actually think they will put anything else good in the roll? the coins are placed at...
when I said sand off the crud I meant the built up layer of built up toning . after a while the new coins will become all kinds of different...
if you have to have a microscope to see something then it is not worth keeping . you will find more and better errors by going to the bank and...
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