my father tought me not to accept them :}:>}
congrats!
I'm going to call this AU-58 NT and hope they didn't slide this into MS Richard
#1 is is caused by gas under the copper plating. Although it is unusual to see in a line that goes all the way across the coin it is not...
I'm not a collector of slabbed coins but i believe that is the same slab used for the presidential dollars which allow for reading the edge...
The reverse is, in my opinion no better than an AG-3, the obverse a G-4. Being a 16-d I'm assuming that they went with the G-4. My only fear is...
i have to go with VG-8 as well Richard
the easiest way to sort a large number of coins by year is to first just sort by the last digit, creation 10 piles rather than 100. then sort each...
since 1982 Lincoln Cents have been made of copper platerd zinc. What you are seeing is what happens when the copper plating gets nicked. The zinc...
Multiple posts- I answered in the post in the us coin forum
before 1990 the mint marks wer applied to the working dies by hand. So long as the mint mark is below thw date and not touching the bust or the...
The coin is a misaligned die but not far enough off center to be worth any premium. What i suspect the OP is asking about is the "swelling"...
I can't say how this was done but if it was done at the time of striking the collar would have prevented the center layer from bulging out like...
It is known as a "BIE" cent and yes, it is a die chip. Richard
I don't think how this got out of the mint is that big of a mystery. The nine strikes that caused this would have happened in a few seconds and...
Ok, who churned the compost?
Your's seems to be a match to the RIC 422 listed on wildwinds http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/maximianus/RIC_0422.jpg Richard
What caused it is not really the issue. the fact is that there isn't a way that it could have happened in the minting process then it is just post...
From my understanding the coins are shipped out of the mint in large bags which it is easy for a brokage error to be in without being noticed....
If the 4 is missing how do you know it is a 1994? Without seeing it this sounds like a grease filled die, fairly common and not worth much of a...
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