Hard to say how affordable it is until you see what it sells for!
It's a 1982 small date, did you have a question about it?
Those are not die polishing lines, they are scratches from the coin being harshly cleaned.
Definitely ask whatever comes to mind. I've been collecting for over fifty years now and still have lots of questions!
To further clarify, or muddy it even more, even on the same denomination you can't really go by the location of the star, lettering or other...
No idea, I don't know anything about the process. Most colonial collectors seem to prefer their coins raw. The only Connecticut I had in a slab...
It would only be worth $6 in very high grade. Yours is very low grade, worth one cent.
It is a 16.3-N. R2 is the rarity of this variety, which means there are between 501 and 1250 known of this variety. It really is a nice coin.
It is an R2 which is 501-1250 known. Variety really only matters to variety collectors. When there are more collectors looking for a particular...
This was in reference to the seller of the fake 1944 steel on ebay, I should have been more specific.
Common variety, but very nice condition!
I see he has sold fake 1909 s vdb cents as novelty coins as well.
Yep, if it has passed all those tests, the next step is to have it certified.
Sorry about your accident, been there done that, it's tough. Coins are a great way to keep occupied and stay sane. Your coin just doesn't match...
Sorry, yours doesn't match the coppercoins pictures.
Definitely post mint damage. One doesn't have to work on machines at the mint to understand the minting process.
@Collecting Nut , are you going to keep collecting Connecticuts? I am hoping to at least get to 50 varieties, I am at 44 now.
I think that is just glue on the coin and an impression where a dime was stuck to it.
Ah, this is what makes them interesting. I find modern coinage so boring with exact known mintages, who designed and minted them, precise grading...
Depends on who you mean by "they". The US mint had nothing to do with gold plating bicentennial coins, but private companies plated them after...
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