Sure, but that wasn't the original question. This was - Which is what was answered. Yes, a tiny, tiny portion of the metal is worn away, but the...
Just looks like a die chip to me, no biggie.
It's pretty simple, the collar was tilted slightly when the coin was struck.
While I do understand what you're saying, my simple answer was always - no. I always believed that proper preservation and protection of the coins...
Granted, but his point was a valid one in that the members of this forum, or any coin forum for that matter since most of the members of this...
Ehhh, maybe. But that AGE only took 7 years, and I carried that specific one longer than any of its predecessors. And Kentucky, there were only 4...
Correct ! [IMG]
They don't make the ones I used to use anymore, but they have a new version out now -...
And no one disputes that. Nor did anyone ever dispute that "some" metal did leave the coin due to wear. But the point that needed to be made,...
The appreciation or depreciation of cash, has nothing to do with what I said. Nor does it's comparison to the value of coins. It's pretty simple,...
Let's put it this way - today, coin values as a whole are at the same level they were at in 2004.
Between writing, editing, reading, teaching, checking coins for others - and doing everything I do here - you need way bigger numbers in that poll...
And I never said that "some", stress some, metal wasn't lost. On the contrary, it has everything to do with it ! Let's put things into their...
How about the oldest error coin I used to own ? :) A 1749 2 reales - struckthrough [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Yes, easily. But it's a bit more complicated than that and your question is a good example of why one needs to understand it. In simplest terms...
It's pretty simple for just about anybody with a halfway decent scale to see it for themselves. All ya have to do is weigh coins and know what the...
How exactly do you define the next few years ? I mean zincolns have been around now for 35 years, and there's still plenty of the oldest ones out...
I sold it years ago and don't recall the name. But modern scales that can weigh to 3 decimal places are pretty common.
Yeah, but the bottom line is this. If a coin can show as much wear as that one does, and only lose 0.003 of a gram of weight, then it can...
I'd have to say it looks more like zinc rot developing as a result of the copper plating being broken by contact hits - thus exposing the zinc to...
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