XF-45 for the IHC
Under most circumstances, never clean your coins. Cleaning should only be done to preserve the coin from further damage such as verdegris and PVC...
I don't want to be the one to burst your bubble, but that is machine doubling, not die doubling.
It appears like you cracked it out of the slab.
Did you do what I think you just did?
I agree with Just Carl, it is not safe to advertise your coin collection to the entire neighborhood. Once people figure out that you have coins...
I found a 1909 wheatie last year and I watched a co-worker break a 1908 IHC out of a bank roll last year as well. So far this year I found a...
I saw this same one on EBay at least a month ago. It's a pretty good error, but I question it's authenticity.
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That's how it looks like in the red book. It looks quite a bit different than the 1942/1.
Well here it is.
First of all, contacting other bidders either during or after an auction about an item for any reason is strictly prohibited under EBay policy and...
I have never seen or heard of a 43-S Bronze before. It's impossible to know what ex-mint employees still have tucked away in their locked safety...
With the recent popularity of them, keep your eye out for modern counterfeits. Counterfeiting technology has advanced to the point where they can...
Watch out for anything coming out of foreign countries like China.
Key dates are the ones that you probably will never find in your search efforts. There are also some harder date ones that can be found in wheat...
I would guess the grade on the slab is MS-64, real grade is probably closer to a MS-62, I can't tell if there is wear or it's just a weak strike.
It's obviously not a brockage, it's definitely some kind of counterpunch. The question is when they were made and for what purpose. It could...
I would leave it alone. It's worth more in a slab than it is inside of a capital plastics holder. There is always a risk that you will damage...
I would grade mine EBay EF details with slight porosity or SGS ms-65
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