If a person just uses a list , they still can't be sure they are correct or not, as damage can occur to mimic it, so it increases the time used....
The reason the magnet only sticks the edge is that the edge was exposed steel so only the copper layer there, but the rest of the coin has a zinc...
No top 4 grading service will grade the cents in post #108 as being done in a mint with a supposed hardness tester which penetrates the zincoln in...
There are almost 54,000 members, and I would guess maybe average of one a year is a real scammer and gets away with it, a few more are sure they...
Those glass etchers !!!!!!
For very good reasons!!
It was on sale , I had to have it :)
Did you make that Rockwell test mark yet??? And I'm also still waiting for one of you geniuses to show us a picture of a penny that weighs 2.95...
It seems to me that either way, if the core is bronze, it is plated outside of the mint whether it is aluminum or zinc over the bronze, and has no...
No RPM, it is mechanical doubling and/or damage from the side. Paddyman posted before me :) His is just as good or better . RPMs for the 1920S...
Working with aluminum antenna and masts I haven't seen aluminum with that color and pattern. A plating of zinc is easily done in high school chem...
The best coin company to start now is metal analysis and tachyon levels.
Check the rims, should be 90 degrees not a chamfer. ( rounded) [ATTACH]
I do not see it as a doubled ear/ear lobe. Jim
I feel that a large percentage of members also have used eBay and have an account there. There is a subforum in the same group as the "For Sale"...
I am not a dime collector, but I do not think it is FSB. Higher definition would make it easier. Jim
Green, give your wife your driving license and wallet and get out your great collection of classic commemorative halves and relax! :)
In the last photos it appears to be done by a drill bit as the spherical ball of a hardness tester under pressure would produce an ultra smooth...
Collecting Nut is correct on the cause of the damage, IMO ,Jim
Some do naturally, Some are pure honest and says what it is, and many times, "No, it is not " is the only answer.If the manner and vocabulary...
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