It's probably a good time to buy gold. I don't see how the price can go much lower and if you grab one now it will surely appreciate. At least...
There are web sites for ECs (elongated coins). Here's one http://www.pennycollector.com/index.html just Google elongated penny.
The secret is using the COPPER pre-1982 cents. Zinc cents sometimes scrape off the copper and give you a streaked end result.
Looks awfully dark out for 9 AM - or was the picture taken during a solar eclipse?
There are pictures on page 170 of (my) 62nd edition of Yeoman's 2009 Coin Guide, in the quarter section.
The caveat here is that it was when I was a kid. That was at a time long before clad coins, when IHCs, Mercs, Walkers, V-Nicks, Buffalos and an...
Several years ago when I was in Vegas, I stopped in the M&M store and made a few of their elongated cents. When I got home i listed them on...
ONLY buy a roll of cents if you 1. are guaranteed that you are getting the roll that is pictured, AND 2. you know what coins are at the open...
Over the years I've given away several hundred of them. I used to sell (mainly not coins) at flea markets. Whenever a kid came by that stopped...
To which mottos do you refer? There are none that are unique to the 1934 Washington quarter. The mottos - " Liberty"; "United States of...
There's still the question of exactly how it was done or what natural event may have caused it.
From your description, and what can be seen in your photos, I would say it was attacked by an acid that ate away the copper core around the edge...
This coin was offered on ebay for "only" $2600....
Any opinions on whether it's been cleaned? To me, it has "that look". Note the toning still in some of the hidden areas.
This was graded MS-63. To me, it looks like some of the hair lines are slightly flat and the top of the eagle's head and wings look a bit rubbed....
They're probably not worth a lot of effort to fully clean. I'd put them in a bigger bucket with clean water and a citrus cleaner, soak them for a...
A quick off-topic physics lesson - Acceleration imparted by gravity is independent of the mass (weight) of an object. A light object will fall...
Here's how Britian makes Silver coins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkHFNnOK3Bg&NR=1 Here's how Germany makes gold coins for Bhutan...
I'd call the Lincoln Cent a high AU. There's just a tiny bit of wear on the hair above the ear, the few tiny dings are minimally distracting and...
Of the coins shown on the link you provided, S-26, S-29, S-57, S-64, S-69, S-71, S-74 and S-93 were all graded MS-65. The only one graded higher...
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