I only see an area at the top that resembles the top of an "S", but the middle doesn't appear, nor the bottom. There is also a lot of extra...
When you do as Chris mentions, you will see that part of the "!" near the bottom dot, and even a little on the vertical bar of the "T", all in a...
The auction photos do not give enough details, but as an estimation I would suspect MS63-64 range if it is MS rather than AU-58. Again, the photos...
It appears to be MD on the date and some MD and die deterioration on the mint mark. Is it re-plated? Jim
Stop the personal and political comments! Lets not end the year with infractions, they do carry over. Some posts removed . Jim
What year is the cent, and specifically, what does the label on the slab say about it?
John, Is the background color ( looks like album page) actually those colors?? Looks like 2 shades of gray on my monitor. The reason I ask, is...
I vote chemistry experiment. http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemistryhowtoguide/a/goldsilverpenny.htm
I am not sure of exactly which "brown" rolls you are discussing, and why it is important that they are originally from a bank of America branch....
Sometimes a coin is struck twice, but that is not the "doubling" that is discussed above. The die that is used for the striking of the coin...
Most likely they meant master hub die doubling. If the master hub/master die operation involved a movement, then the master die could be doubled...
There are dealers and even regular collectors who honestly do have unopened rolls back to the 1950s, and others have boxes of them from the 60s or...
Opinions vary, but most would not buy one unless the offset was enough to remove an area of detail, then pricing would take into consideration %...
Ericar, i would like to mention members of a local or county coin club. Deals are usually more secure, closer to fair value and no problems with...
The edge can abrade, chip, start a die crack, etc. You will notice these in relation to the size and depth of the die recess. Smaller/steeper...
And the discolored circular area around it makes one suspicious, very suspicious.
It is misleading to new collectors or visitors, and I don't want such obvious photo-edited attachments to be forever on google linked to Cointalk....
Usually on older coins that were before the single squeeze hubbing and die trails. The dies are much harder than the copper or copper nickel coin...
They all suffer from deterioration of the dies. In the first, it is not a repunched as the second image doesn't have the shape/size for s...
I think that the term "filed" might have been meant in a generic way. Almost every high school used to have a metal shop with grinders, emery...
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