The only place you heard the word slab was at the Rocky Horror picture show.
Supposedly there were some 1959D Lincoln cents with a diecracks thru all of Liberty. They were nicked named Armageddon BIEs.
Incused and raised can be hard to correctly discern sometimes. Check at multiple angles and lighting.
Nice pieces Bruce. Does "Union Flour" mean they provisioned the Union Army? That would have been some contract with the jillions of hardtack...
Not rare. There's a thousand bags of that date in a bank vault down in Bolivia. And yours has been defaced with graffiti or worse, they forgot...
I just realized something: 2016 minus 1977 equals the sea cruise I took to England in 1977. :p [IMG]
Don't they have some gadget that sniffs out residue on coins?
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