because the super thin copper plating didn't stick to the zinc metal very good. we usually call these gas bubbles.
these are coins from worn out dies. a broadstruck coin is a coin that has been struck by the dies without the retaining collar in place. this lets...
this looks like it may have been struck on a defective planchet , I think it looks cool. EDIT; after taking another look I'm almost totally...
good thread here , I enjoyed reading it.
That would be one heck of a good job. just imagine opening the sealed mint bags of coins and pouring them into the counting and rolling...
On just about any old pitted and corroded coin there will be all kinds of odd looking things due to the pitting from corrosion and all types of...
the bagmarks on coins from banging into other coin can sometimes confuse us. if you believe this is not just another bagmark you may want to get...
If you are talking about the tiny area above the rock this looks to me to just be a ding in the coin. Unless the photos is confusing me it looks...
this is called damage , the whole coin is badly damaged. this is probably why someone put it in the roll , so they could get rid of it .
I was wondering who put all of those 1932 quarters in the pop machine along with the other silver ones. I thought that maybe someone had stole...
this is not a doubled die , it is damage from taking a hit from something.
Hey I'm not going to call you crazy. I think you are right about these 2009 doubled die cent coins . when they get some age on them they may be...
I think you have it backwards. a strike thru is when a foreign object gets in between the die and the planchet and gets pushed into the coin when...
the coin looks like a normal cent to me , the reason this coin doesn't have a mintmark is because it was made at the Philadelphia mint.
this looks as if it has been a really strong die clash and some of the clash marks has probably been removed by the mint workers. I can see what...
yes I bet you are going to bid. actually you don't need to bid , you can buy it now for 199.00 and you get free shipping. LOL
this ebayer is destroying the sales of their good coins by listing altered junk like this. anyone should know this is just a piece of trash. I...
regardless of what it is it would be hard to say for sure because of this darn copper plating. it is hard to find a copper plated coin that is...
I'm wondering how NGC determined this was a mint error. to me it looks like some kind of a machine has sheared off some of the coin's rim after it...
I can see what you are talking about and it looks interesting , I can't get the images to enlarge enough to see what it really is.
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