nickels don't have the clad layers like our other coins do. I would say this is dried up glue or some other gunk dried on this coin.
this terminoligy has been around since the beginning of coin collecting. maybe you are so young you have never heard of this or maybe you have not...
all I was trying to do is to explain to you that some clash marks are raised up and some clash marks are sunken in on the clashed die coins. if...
this type of doubling does not make a coin worth anything extra . I hope no one get's mad at me for saying this but this is just how it is. If you...
SHEESE !!!!! You have said this same thing over and over and problably not reading a word that others have wrote on here. What in the heck do you...
This is a typical rotten cent. this is what happens to the zinc cents when exposed to the elements, they rot away then our cent is gone.
If the obverse die was not swapped out or polished off then it will have clash marks of the memorial building as well.
Yes there are many coins out there with awesome die scratches and die gouges but I hate to say it but this was not one of them. I was just hoping...
Mike I just got this coin out of the mail today and it will be on it's way back to it's owner tomorrow. In a matter of seconds after examining the...
Thanks Mike for the information about the counter clash coins. I suppose I was always thinking wrong , I thought this only involved the coin dies...
Hey rockdude all dropped letters are incuse because the coin die pushes them into the planchet when stricking a coin. a large piece called a die...
In this case then your coin is mostlikely a struck thru. I told a true story on this forum a while back and got laughed at over it but it was the...
If someone told you a dog was white you would have to say it is black. surely you don't think every detail in a coin die's design is flat or just...
This sure looks like a doubled die coin.
Ok I'm sorry then , there were so many people on here that said that I lost track off who everyone was that said it.
Here's one good way to explain a clashed die so everyone can understand it. a severe clashed die coin looks identical to what we call a hammer...
It's definately not a hammer job . I definately agree with Hobo that it is glue , another coin has left the impression of the YT in the glue....
This is mostlikely from a die clash. this is where the Y ends up when the dies clash together.
Now who was it that has told me many times it would be impossible for a die to get clashed up inside of the recessed area of the die ? I believe I...
These places looks more like die gouges.
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