LOL! Well next to Ray and many others my photos suck.
This is one of my favorite coins in my collection, it was VERY difficult to find for me since 99.99% of these suck when you do find one. This coin...
The 82 series is the most interesting of the memorial generation. 7 coins were issued and over the decades I have developed my own theories as to...
The easiest way to tell is by the distance from the rim. It's VERY obvious, the 2 is almost touching the rim on the large date. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Yes, mintage in the billions with 99+% MS-60 to 65. Unless you collect Zincolns, you'll never understand the extreme difficulty of finding...
I've been wondering if collectors will ever come around. The old "they made billions" so high grade coins are everywhere folklore-fallacy. Perhaps...
Just another ignorant seller, almost all mint state 1916's look like proofs to the untrained eye because the master hub was "fixed and enhanced".
This is what 90+% of the 83's look like: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Finding a nice 1983 without bubbles is VERY difficult: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
1983 and 1984 were also horrible for gas bubbles....here's a PL I found: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
1985's were pretty horrible too. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Struck through something, nice coin!
Gas bubbles and ridges/lines are the norm for the issue. Finding one without those probably took me over a decade. 1987's are just as problematic....
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It doesn't matter, the coin is a regular, damaged VDB no matter what you may determine.
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