You have already done the best non-destructive test - you weighed it. At a weight of ~2.5g it is absolutely not a genuine steel coin from the US...
[img] to CoinTalk. If your local public library doesn't have the Standard Catalog of World Coins 18th and 19th Century editions, it can...
That's the wide rim, soapy color and cast surface directly from the CFRC* Mint that I mentioned in the thread about a 1797 "Trade Dollar"....
Some of the copper plating has come off the zinc core. Current cents minted since part-way through the 1982 production run consist of a 99.2%...
[img] to CoinTalk. I sure hope you didn't pay more than a buck or two, including S/H, because you have a common, well known product of one of the...
Because of the forum this thread is in, I guess the question is limited to US coins, so:Walking Liberty, F-XFWalking Liberty AU+Walking Liberty...
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In this discusion the consensus was that such a small amount of rotation wouldn't raise value very much.
No, I just bought the book so I could look up the information. :D
Your question is pretty vague Bob. San Francisco wheat cents from 1930 to 1955 (the last year of San Francisco production) range in value from a...
There is no specific information about the ultimate source of the Mint's stocks of precious metals posted on its website, or in its Annual...
KM#69, is a copper-nickel con with no unusual thickness noted in the Standard Catalog of World Coins, or any other readily available reference, so...
Maybe a dumb question, but who dat? :confused:
Based on the first set of pictures I was going to say VG, but the amount of "LIBERTY" showing in the headband of the angled photo changed my mind...
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You might want to read this recent thread and this one.
My guess is that one of the sellers stole the other one's photos. :( I'm sending both sellers the following message (using a throwaway EBay ID):...
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That's right, they are proof versions of coins intended for circulation - whether or not they actually circulate. I guess what I should have said...
I haven't practiced criminal law in almost 40 years my friend, so I don't generally opine on matters of that nature. BTW, just to correct the...
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