OK, how did a flying eagle cent get struck on a copper coated zinc planchet? This question has been asked numerous times and you continue to...
14 months, next year will be 50 years for me and I am still learning from people on here! You have heard from the foremost error expert in the...
Yup, environmental damage, we see them all the time.
Did you read the thread? There is a link posted for the value.
If you are going to sell this to someone who knows their coin facts, you will get what it is worth, one cent.
If you are so convinced, why won't you have it authenticated by one of the third party graders? Tell you what, send it out, if you are correct I...
So I guess what you are saying is, someone in the 20th century took a copper plated zinc planchet, went back in time to the 1850's, had a flying...
OK, explain this. If it was struck on a flying eagle cent, where did they get the copper coated zinc planchet in 1857/1858 to strike the flying...
I think it may have been stamped on that many times, then run over a few times.
DDO, DDR, AND struck over a flying eagle cent? The odds would be way beyond astronomical, bordering on impossible. Post some clear pictures and...
Sorry, looks like normal beat up quarter.
If you are talking about the blobs around the date, they are not errors just plating blisters. The copper plated zinc cents are notorious for...
I believe the mint mark was punched in after the die was completed, so the mint mark would not be doubled on a doubled die.
Check post #17, Paddyman just explained it.
Definitely real, it is the "copper" ones where you need to look for fakes.
Yup, ground, not clipped.
Could you post links to these that are selling for big money? From what I can see these all look like face value.
That is a 1974 not a 1994, is that the coin you are talking about? Nothing unusual about a 1974 without a mintmark, it just means that it was...
I agree, both large.
Very slightly underweight, not unusual.
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