No such thing as a bad New Jersey copper, I love them all! It is a 46-e, one of the most common varieties, but often found on rough planchets....
Sure looks fake. Thickness will tell you in a hurry, the normal fakes are usually way too thick. Should be pretty much paper thin. There is a...
I would love to get into Presidential campaign material, if I wasn't into so many things already! Thanks for sharing.
That's a cast fake for sure.
No, the coin hasn't been polished, the die it was struck with was!
Heavily polished die, losing some of the details.
You are definitely correct, there is no way it can be a sms cent. Unless you buy one already slabbed, there is no way you will get a 1964 sms coin.
With the state coinages the value is all about the rarity of the particular variety. If it was a Connecticut or New Jersey I could surely give...
No, exactly the opposite. The reverse is pushed out from the pressure on the obverse. This could not happen if the coin was in the dies, had to...
Looks to be a genuine coin but intentionally damaged somehow. A strikethrough would not show corresponding damage on the other side.
Please explain how this can happen in the minting process. If you don't like the free and correct answer here, spend your money and send it to...
While there are in depth books on many of the different series of pre Federal coins, Whitman Encyclopedia of Colonial and Early American Coins is...
There are 7 different reverse die varieties with the small closed S's and 9 with the wide open S's. Yours has the wide open S's, I don't know if I...
Have you weighed the coin? I bet it isn't the correct weight.
Well, there are actually several types of doubling. In addition to doubled die and machine doubling, there can be die deterioration doubling,...
Welcome to the club! I've always said, I could have a world class collection if I could focus on just one area. I tend to jump around as well,...
Picture is not the best, but that doesn't look like it to me.
It seems like the common date large cents are getting tough to come by at a decent price. I still need one common date for my large cent set, and...
Numismatics is a funny hobby, an amazing piece of history like that for $15, but a normal quarter with a die chip that gets a fancy name can cost...
If you don't like the free information, spend the money and send it to PCGS. The answer will be the same though.
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