Normally a MAD will still have both dies within the collar and it is the collar that determines the diameter of the coin, so a MAD will not...
Stick around, you'll see wisecracks from time to time.
I don't see any doubled die on the 1964 D, and I don't know why anyone would say you were crazy for saying you had a 1982 Philadelphia small date...
It could receive damage lake that while it was still inside the mint building, but not until AFTER it was struck. And anything that happens to a...
Hydrogen cyanide is produced by the potassium or sodium cyanide reacting.
It isn't even a 1970 S, the mintmark is altered.
If the coins show no wear they are uncirculated, no matter who rolled them. If not then ANY business strike coin that the grader does not...
Makes me very glad I don't collect modern stuff.
I can understand a medal for Sadat for his role trying to bring peace to the middle east, but a gold medal to Gleason for being a good football...
Cyanide used to be a common coin cleaner, and it works, but it can also kill you in very small quantities and has been known to do so to...
Yes, because the Secretary of the Treasury preferred Flannagan's design. You can have a design contest and pick a winner, but it is the Secretary...
No process that I know of. No, damage like that could definitely occur outside the mint. As you say yourself, the "cud" is actually the result...
I don't see mint luster, I believe I see a couple plating blisters, the rippled surfaces are fairly indicative of plating over roller striations....
I see a scratch, not sure if is on the die or the coin but I suspect the die. Also see were the depressed line in the wheat ear are joined to the...
All cents from 1963 to mid 1982 are brass. You have a badly scratched up normal 1979 cent.
You're thinking Hammer die and Anvil Die not obv/rev. The obv can be either hammer or anvil, same with the rev (though typically not during the...
For starters post pictures here, but just keep in mind that the real ones are proofs and rare, while for every real one there are probably a...
What language is that?
Did you read the thread? 99.9999% chance it was plated after it left the mint.
You think they didn't have headphones in 1966? :)
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