It so happens that I have an example of that type in an NGC XF slab. [ATTACH] With ancients and medievals, grade is mostly meaningless to me....
Yep. I’m sure the worms play their role, too, over time.
While that is possible, the coins could have settled deeper into the ground on their own without soil being added. Heavier coins in particular...
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Are you working on any folders or albums?
Wow, that's one of the most unusual flans I've seen! [ATTACH] Cool!
Very nice upgrade!
Great Britain (Chichester, Sussex): 1794 copper Conder token, "Chichester Halfpenny" [IMG]
That seems a likely explanation.
I've been good, and haven't opened mine.
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Coingrats. In all my years of detecting, for some reason I never found any Washingtons from the 1930s.
This thread deserved a resurrection, so here it goes, back up into the sunlight.
This 1909 VDB cent has an unbroken pedigree from the time it entered circulation. It was part of an original roll saved in 1909 by Ohio banker...
Yep. Looks like textile toning, from cloth, or a similarly contoured surface.
At least it's a copper cent, and not a Zincoln... :P
Yep, I got that one, too (with a different counterstamped quarter). If anybody is interested in the Quarter Notes counterstamps, I'm giving away...
Take some pliers and crimp those staples completely flat. You don't want their pointy ends coming loose and scratching your nearby coins. Staple...
Nice wheat harvest!
@Jeepfreak81, as a former employee of Littleton, will no doubt find the sight of those little plastic pouches to be familiar. If you're wondering...
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