You can make a crude scale out of a AA battery and a popsicle stick. Create a balanced seesaw and place a known copper vent on one end. Then your...
Great start! Have fun adding to it!
I was thinking about this and trying to remember if I ever snagged play money in change. Found plenty of it while CRHing, cents mostly, but I’m...
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Pictures are too fuzzy but I don’t see it. Here’s a link: http://coppercoins.com/lincoln/diestate.php?date=1956&die_id=1956d1mm002&die_state=mds
Rich with coin knowledge!
Don’t lose any sleep over it. All of us have been fooled and will be fooled again. Some damage just looks too good to be damage. The worst...
A good overlay. The registration of the metal strip becomes out of sync with the press. There are a number of ways this happens. Except for the...
I started a roll collection for Lincoln cents and Jefferson nickels. I continue to add/subtract coins to/from the rolls as I get better specimens....
Yes. Looks like damage. It extends beyond the fields into the rim. Maybe a knife.
Or industrial dryer coin.
Neat trick! I’ll try it and let you know. I double up on the white packing material but I wasn’t able to eliminate the glare in spots. I hadn’t...
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I took the black felt packing from when I bought a new computer and use that in my shoebox setup. Flat black and works in most instances. But...
Yes. The point of the colors is to show that with the same settings details can be washed. Often we see patterns in backgrounds here that are...
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Another thread - https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1888-last-8-7-possible-with-picture.49784/
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/is-this-the-1888-7-indian-head-cent-and-how-do-you-tell.270067/
I’ve seen plenty of material cracks on bends especially where the material was hard and when the bend was coined. Also when the tools are run too...
I would normally expect the crack to appear on both sides. Interesting that it is isolated to one side. Perhaps damage to the die field (witness...
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