I bet he was convinced putting large square pegs into a small round hole was possible. Pounding them harder and harder in his frustration when all...
Takes a big person to hold up their hands and admit they were wrong. There are a lot of folks here who have seen a lot of how coins are damaged,...
The doubling you are seeing is MD as you can clearly see it has reduced the size of the devices not added to them. Work out which reverse you have...
I think it is a masonic token
Are they raised to a fingertip touch? Could be die pitting due to decarburisation of the die steel. It is seen primarily in the fields along with...
Yet another post about the same coin. The 2 took a hit and moved metal. The top of the 8 is wrong for a small date. Yes, I can believe anyone...
The title says 22K solid gold, at the bottom of the page in it's description it says this MINI St. Gaudens Coin Pendant weighing in at .45 GRAMS...
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Look real to me. Quite popular in Europe to take a de-monetized coin, drill it and make a necklace or other jewelry out of it.
On enlargement it appears to be the same size and shape of the damaged area to the rim, which was folded over and smoothed out with use and wear.
That is a beauty. Ragged Perforations (a.k.a. “Blow Holes”) Definition: A planchet defect in the form of a ragged hole. Such perforations...
Place your phone on a stable base, coffee mug, can of soup etc Put your coin on a neutral background, black, white or dark grey are best depending...
Glad to have been of some help
Here is a link where you can see what a hard presentation case looks like...
Plating blisters, nothing more
It happens quite often but normally within or just outside tolerance. When the sheets of metal go through the roller system to create the...
I find it strange that the 1975 set above, has a label written in English. Is it possible the set was put together by a dealer or a private...
Pictured is the soft plastic. The "Classic" set comes in a hard plastic presentation case. Value difference, I guess because of the way they are...
Of the three, number 2 is by far and away the best looking coin. #1; MS 64 #2; MS 64 #3; MS 63
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