Criteria: Do you like the coin? Does it have good eye appeal? Are you buying for long term? Or, are you planning to flip it? I wouldn't worry...
Nice. Might have been a plant from the Great American Coin Hunt. But who cares where it came from. It is a nice find and it is yours.
If it was a vice job wouldn't there some indications from the jaws? A train is the only culprit I can think of.
That says, and I agree, that this started out as normal One Cent piece. Someone placed another One Cent piece on top with the reverse down against...
I'm putting my money on something similar to what you are proposing.
However, there are signs of major lamination along with what looks like a strike through.
Yes, the kids back then seemed to have no problem getting hold of what we called "quick silver". You saw a lot of 50's and earlier pennies with...
Sometimes when looking at an error it is not what you see but what you don't see that gives the best clue.
I will look closer in a few days to see if either show a progression.
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This must be a weak spot in the design. I found three in a roll of D mint with a chip starting in the same place. Below is one of them. They are...
I agree. It is struck through grease. I don't think I could get MS with that defect.
Look at a normal Jefferson. [ATTACH]
Looks like that feature has been struck through some grease. See below
I just went through a U S Mint roll of 2005 P Ocean View and found 5 with a die crack in E PLURIBUS UNUM and 12 with varying degrees of the same...
I checked all of my 2007 Proofs and they are all correct orientation.
Fun story. I had never heard that before.
I have one also. I don't think there is any market for them.
I've never seen a 1943 I didn't like. Inspector43
Very Nice.
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