What I'm seeing looks like glue. Even if it was heat related it would have to be something that happened post strike making it Post Strike Damage...
Concrete sidewalk.
Yeah but you might find it in a roll of half dollars. I have seen them put an ancient roman coin in the end of the roll. Sure like that showed...
No hadn't see it. I have to get ready for work shortly so I will try and look at it more closely later.
The cladding isn't the result of a "dip", they are three layers of metal that are bonded together by high pressure rolling. (In the early years...
The problem with that explanation is what would cause a RAISED lump in the strip that could survive multiple passes through the multi-ton pressure...
One problem I see is that someone bought the coin you received expecting to get it and now isn't going to.
The 1803 is a small date small fraction, I believe S-254. And as C-B-D says the 1814 is a plain 4. They only had to rev dies that year the plain...
This will also frequently be the appearance of a lightly circulated coin that has begun to tone. Because what caused the wear (and left...
The Mint did offer a certificate of appreciation signed by Director Mary Brooks for returning $25 worth of cents.
Can't tell you much because it is from the era before I collect, but in the mid 1600's England, Ireland, and Scotland suffered from sever coin...
No. There is a law that says you can't MELT cent and non-silver five cent pieces, but you can chop them up beat them with a hammer, roll them...
Isn't that tune from Coca-Cola?
Yes it originated at the US mint but not as an item produced with any kind or authority. Coins are produced under legal authority, patterns are...
Press operator at cent press that is not running hand inserts nickel planchet betwee the dies. Cycles the press, retrieves the "error" from the bin.
It does in my copy (2014 p418) TYPES OF ERROR COINS Under defective die "Prices shown here are for coins with very noticeable, raised die-crack...
And that brings you back to ebay, about the only place you can present your coin to a lot of collectors directly. They will offer you more than...
Yep all the 2015 Presidents, and Reagan, but they are skipping Nixon and Ford for some reason.
And even if they have interest for awhile and then it fades away, for a significant percentage of them they will return to the hobby later in...
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