I think I would stop doing business with that coin dealer.
I haven't the slightest idea. I would guess the middle version is genuine, because it appears to have circulated extensively.
It depends what time period you're talking about. I have seen bags of cents from the early Memorial cent years (1959-1964), but these only very...
Most coins without a mintmark were minted in Philadelphia. This is the case with your coin. 1939 (P) is a very common coin, with over 120...
I know you're asking Paul, and not me, but yes...the date/mintmark of a coin should be considered when grading. For instance, certain years of...
I can offer little evidence, except that anectodal. I was at a coinshow this last weekend....a small coin show, mind you....only about 30...
Silver is the best conductor. Here's some evidence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_conductor ("Silver is the best conductor...")...
I wouldn't say you did anything wrong. At the worst, you might lose a couple of bucks. At the best, you might make a couple of bucks. No...
Personally I'd think "Meh, thanks for the cash." Then again, I've tipped with $2 bills lots of times, and almost universally got a positive...
Hey...I'm not knocking your coins. People are into different things, and believe me, collecting Jefferson nickels I understand the rarity of...
Get outta here.
Severely AT. Sorry.
www.smalldollars.com does not show any varieties for the 1980-D SBA.
I have seen wood-grain type toning on Jeffersons -- long, streaky toning. But I don't know that I've ever seen it because of an alloy issue. I...
The second set of pics worries me a little. I'm detecting a different sort of green there. Primarily between Liberty and the stars, roughly in the...
Now that's not a bad idea...strike them just for collectors. I wonder if I'd buy them.
No varieties that I know of. Maybe it was a good buy -- like 99 cents or something. I once bought $12.00 face value of 1964-and-earlier...
I'm going to say EF-45 detail, probably cleaned at one point. I could be wrong, but the luster on the obverse, as well as the toning on the entire...
Not bad. If I were you I'd take something like a toothpick and get some of the dirt off the obverse of that 1920 cent. It's in a couple of...
Only reason I called it a 67 is because I couldn't, for the life of me, figure out why you would want it otherwise. If I graded it myself it would...
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