It's almost certainly a case of machine doubling. When MD involves incuse design elements the appearance is rather different than when MD affects...
It's a grease strike. Value would probably be between $20 and $25. And that's only because it's a Union Shield cent.
The weight and diameter don't come close to anything the Mint was producing that year in either the Philadelphia mint or a branch mint. It could...
We need a more precise weight down to the nearest 1/10th of a gram. Right now it's hard to say what it is. Part of the problem is that the coin...
Sounds like it's missing a clad layer. If so, it should weigh about 4.7 grams. Depending on condition, value would range between $150 and $250.
It sure looks like a doubled die to me. I seem to detect some subtle doubling in the letters immediately to the right. And I've seen one other...
The coin was vandalized outside the Mint.
My latest edition is the sixth. It doesn't have the dime photo. The 1965 quarter looks to have a struck-in rim burr, but much of it fell out...
Which edition of Herbert's book is the photo in?
Herbert is wrong in his identification. The dime looks like it has a struck-in rim burr. At any event, it's some form of pre-strike damage....
Thin quarters weighing anywhere between 4.9 and 5.3 grams and carrying the S-mintmark have been reported for several dates in the early 1950's....
"Underweight planchet" or "thin planchet" are non-specific diagnoses that are best avoided unless there truly is uncertainty about the nature and...
There are several different sources for a thin, underweight planchet. The two most common are a rolled-thin planchet and a split-before-strike...
This dime was struck on a planchet punched out of rolled-thin stock. Not a particularly rare error.
Yes, I'd still like to see it, if only to get hands-on experienced with a dropped filling on the edge of a coin.
The incuse "T" would have had to have been on the edge of the coin before the edge lettering was applied. As I said earlier, the dies are...
I communicated with Ken Potter and he seems to have covered all the bases, as far as looking for any signs of a contact mark. After our e-mail...
Ignore the last post. I used a Monroe dollar in my experiment and the obverse lettering is different, and smaller, in the Polk issue. The T's of...
One thing I now notice is that the T of PRESIDENT is considerably larger than the T on the edge of your Polk dollar. Both the normal raised T and...
Here's a contact mark from the T of PRESIDENT that I produced without much care or effort. [IMG] There are telltale signs it's a contact...
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