from 2012: Questions: [IMG] [IMG] desertgem 1. Will latex gloves hurt a coin when you handle a coin with them on? 2. Can you handle a coin...
Could you please post the coin in a vertical way to show the edge close-up? The planchets were originally punched from steel sheets that were...
If it was the leg of the "R" you were using as evidence of a DDO, look at the inside loop of the same R on the photo of Coppercoins photo. Yours...
Use stainless steel staples. They won't produce corrosion as quick or badly as normal steel staples. Below, after normal steel staples . Look at...
MU Caliri, I don't think you will get much feedback from a video in hand, it shakes too much. Photos of it on a flat surface would be needed . It...
You are quite welcome Marites, and Paddy , a lamination is a lamination. Yes I am sure there are realistic limits such as if the zinc was...
Miss, I will not promise it is one. It depends if you can see there is an actual raised area. If you look at the 1st full obverse photo, you will...
It produces one side appearing "sloped triangular" which would be thicker at the base and the one on the curved side of the D would be regular to...
Sorry , another educated one. In the Astronomy Nov.,2020 there is an article ( other good ones also, worth the money) , There is an article of...
Sorry. I am sure it is not a RPM. When the mint mark was stamped in with punch. since it was the same punch, the outlines would be the same, so if...
My pareidolia this late at night "sees a '5' and a 'P' on Abe' coat hem. but that is of course only my imagination. Jim
Yes, Longacre doubling . If you are unfamiliar with it, google it. For coins of that era, a different method of die formation....
I agree with the members that said damage only as you can see the 4 in the date also was damaged along the same arc. Most likely an old coin...
Since the die only gets a single squeeze, how could it be re-punched? or overdate?
Toning can start at anytime from quickly after minting to "close to never" , depending on the environmental gases and quantities. The coins could...
It is just damage, as for that date range, the date and mm if any were CNC engraved into the die, so no overdates from the early 90s, I believe Jim
I vote for Die Deterioration doubling, a no value added situation. IMO, Jim
I think at this point, I would label it and put it away for a while. If you can manage to get access to a lab binocular scope at a high school or...
Ugly toning to me. I can build another large room onto the house for playthings for that amount.
Please try to put a glass magnifier in front of the camera lens. It could be damage due to wear and no need to spend a lot of money on getting it...
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