Is that a bottle cap?
Banks back in the day would buy bags and roll their own coins for commerce. As said above the true original rolls came from the Federal Reserve...
Not necessarily, I like to look and see if I have one or how many of the same year, maybe to see if I have a later/earlier die stage that I can...
There is money to be made in this business, and those that do understand the grading system and usually pick a certain style or denomination of...
The red coin went into a distilled water soak, I will check it in the morning. When I put the coin in the distilled water it had air pockets...
It didn't leave the mint that way, good photos Daulton.
What year is the coin? Thats a fun find right there.
Thanks for the humility lol I am guessing that maybe a coin roll could have been the culprit. I thought that these plasticizers came from the soft...
I like the lower half of the 69 scale involved in this equation.
I bet they are BU, fun to find rolls, looks like any chance of an extra finger are eliminated though. No formative years.
I don't use credit cards, call me old fashioned, I refuse to put a digital footprint on the web. They are definitely coins that I have seen...
There are only areas that show a die crack. and none of them are at the rim so, I would just say that there was a weakness, and everything broke...
I am flashing back to when I might have put these in the roll, I hope that you are wrong because the luster is amazing in hand. I wonder what...
If it is corrosion I believe the only thing that will help them is MS70, and thats liable to leave these with some wild colors.
I think that one should get a distilled water soak. and the other should get an acetone bath. Both would obviously get a q tip roll between...
Great photos as always!
@Collecting Nut the first three arrows from the bottom show the void between the surfaces, yes that usually means a die crack. But this image...
I think the idea is that an 8 Punch was grabbed first the 8 was punched and it was noticed to be the wrong number.
The first one shows some thickness to what ever is on the coin. PVC is also green.
Very neat Gorham. Definitely a retained cud.
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