This thread needed a poll...
I take it to mean that a plated coin is coated with a metal, and cladding is more like two metals being forced into a single “chunk”. Technically...
Whereas copper-coated zinc cents are basically plated, not clad.
@V. Kurt Bellman what’s wrong with books from Whitman??? Seriously, I wish that people would support their arguments in any way other than being...
I stand corrected. :)
Totally. So totally jacked.
I don’t understand how the coin could possibly (technically) grade any higher. You say that it has “ripping luster” and that makes it a very...
Just because something is free, does not mean it’s no good, and some amateurs are extremely knowledgeable. Matt is a professional numismatist and...
One day at a time, Bman33!!! Great job!
Truthfully, yes, most of the silver has been culled from circulation. What most fail to realize is that every day, thousands of silver coins...
big ding on the cheek. MS-65 FS
There are only a select few of these that find a big premium over circulation coins. Largest of note are the two years 1982 and 83. Made and...
Those are good buys for $4. The souvenir sets came from the actual Mints sounvenir shops. You could only get them if you visited the Mints.
What would you like to know about them?
MS-66
Well, it’s exactly what he promised in the title of the thread give or take a Mint mark :)
Not a D by anybody’s standards
I see it. I don’t know if it’s actually a Mint mark, but agree with @-jeffB I have never heard of a weak D. On every specimen I have ever seen the...
Love that last Ike!
Fair enough. Mislabeled in what way? Using blank vs planchet?
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