It's obvious that this is a prank. A nice one except that the cut off portion just left of 1828 on the obverse is not cut off on the reverse view.
Looks like the coin was masked in half to take the photo.
Like rickmp said. They've been doing it since the Nickelodeon was born.
You might want to save them "as found" so they better represent the era and history of the coin.
I'm trying to get them interested in coin collecting. But, they won't put the electronic stuff down long enough to see if they might like it.
Congratulations Joy. Grandkids are great. Spoil them and send them home. We have 13 grandkids and 17 great grandkids. I keep an excel spreadsheet...
Looks more like 1961. We are reading it upside down.
No, that would be great.
Most people, including my family, would only take about 12 pictures a year. A roll of film was good for 12. Then you had to have them developed...
I suppose it is all relative. When my wife and I bought our first house, a nice two story on a big corner lot, I was earning $78 a week and the...
Thanks for the feedback.
Back then a penny was worth a penny to most everyone. A vast majority of the people had lived through the Great Depression and WW II. All coins...
The best I ever got in change was a Twenty Cent piece as a quarter back in the 50's. Our babysitter got a 1908-S Philippine Silver Peso in change...
I have at least one like that. A 1949 with 12 sides. I might have more if I look. Funny thing, I was reading some comments on the thread you...
In the 40's and 50's I saw them quite frequently. And, naturally, I kept all I found. Not so much anymore. But, as I travelled a lot to Canada in...
That's what collecting is all about. Good luck.
I thought it was very ugly too. I can't see it as AU 58 at all.
When I started collecting in 1948 the mint produced the Penny, Nickel, Dime, Quarter and Half Dollar in Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco....
Thanks for all the feedback. It has been very valuable.
Thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge.
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