Calibration requires a weight piece within the scale parameter. With electronic scales, they have a procedure to follow with a precise weight....
One process to take the first steps on learning to grade is to learn the succession of changes that occurs with normal wear and/or handling in the...
I can't judge the monetary value, but the last photos do show a much higher resolution and oddly a better depth of focus on the coin areas, so...
Your cent shows die deterioration doubling, which is not considered an error or true doubling as the die starts out normal , but as it is...
I think your premise is flawed with your "weeding out " process. Several of the ones you likely consider as such are very informed. So far, it is...
What most ignore is that most likely you are putting a corrosion magnet close to a coin. The one below I bought raw in a paper 2x2 and had it in...
I do not think anyone has found any such here recently or we would have all heard about it. Without the wink , I would have considered it an offer...
Since the original 1943 cents were punched from zinc coated steel material, their edges show steel which is a dull grey material. If the edge is...
and perhaps in other forums, they will show up and post "CT banned me and I didn't do anything!!!!!". But they will still be banned from the...
Since they were dealing with silver to use in a minor coin ( usually non-silver) , the federal Government was quite strict in tolerances....
Cheech re-read my comment above. I said it applied to ALL. Stop the personal comments, stick with coins.....you will be happier, Jim
Probably too free with the truth. Maybe his way of being away from home a lot on purpose.
Better coins than little children, sadly.
Both are large. Jim
Bob, no one has to agree with anyone, but the crap talking is not needed. Show us your best coin or not, but stay away from personal comments not...
3 and one artificial one as that horse has legs like 'twiggy'.
More likely to be a zinc coated cent if it isn't just a discolored normal cent. It would have the characteristics of the 43 zinc coated cent (...
It's a thing all right! It's a Single Squeeze Polydactyl coin. worth 1 finger, but I can't show it as the moderator will ding me....oh wait ! Jin
I wish the poster would some day post about the coin as looking at it, it didn't look like a DDO , but more like deteriorated die doubling as it...
As I remember, there was some stories that some casings were retrieved from rifle practice sites and added because of PR. No actual military...
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