First, welcome to the forum! Next, you will need to post pictures, impossible to say anything without seeing it.
It has been damaged somehow. For some reason coins are a common target for mutilation!
Yup, I remember buying them in souvenir shops when I was a kid.
Yeah, it is just beat up.
Nickels when exposed to the elements often tone a copper color. I have found many of them metal detecting that show this coloration.
You'll need to post some pics to say, but any of these coins are extremely rare while copies are very common.
Most likely plated with some other metal.
I believe there are somewhere around 11 varieties from five obverse and four reverse dies.
No mint mark means it came from the Philadelphia mint. Philadelphia did not start putting a mint mark on dimes until the 1980's. The no S coins...
Most colonial collectors don't like their coins slabbed, probably one reason they comprise such a small percentage of submissions. There may not...
It depends on the coin and how bad the damage is. I would not have a chain cent and would never be able to own one if I wasn't willing to...
Most likely a genuine 1943 half dollar that was altered after it left the mint, or as desertgem suggested, a privately minted piece. The 1883...
Unless it is a 1921 Morgan, much more common than the 1921 Peace Dollar and worth substantially less.
Agreed, absolutely impossible for it to have happened at the mint. These are pretty common novelty items made from two different coins.
Better check the forum rules! - Offers to buy, sell or trade by individuals and/or dealers are not permitted in any way, shape or form in threads...
No mint mark just means that it was minted at the Philadelphia mint. As stated, very common and only worth face value.
Thanks for the review. I did stop in a coin shop in Gettysburg and picked up a 39.2-ee Connecticut, but there was just too much going on to make...
I was in Gettysburg for the weekend but didn't make it to the show. Anyone go? How was it?
They seem to be genuine to me, just very harshly cleaned.
Not unusual that it was removed from it's holder, many [if not most] colonial collectors prefer there coins unslabbed.
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