[ATTACH] Yeah, that's the ticket!
Yes, it's some form of doubling. It's a combination of machine doubling and deteriorated die doubling. Sorry to have to break it to you.
Does this thread have a point?
I don't follow Kennedy half dollars, so I can't help you on value. It's a nice coin if you like toning.
All toning is real. Your question really should be, is it natural or artificial? Apparently, PCGS thinks it's natural or it wouldn't be in one of...
On CL, huh? Do they grade and slab in a police station while you wait?
Yes, plated. And, yes, plating adds so very little weight that, unless you have a scale that reads out to 4 or 5 decimal places, you won't notice...
Zinc is a dull gray color, not shiny and silver like. Your coin may have been plated. Post a picture, it'll help with a determination.
Lint? You're lucky, Chris. The only things I find in my pockets are holes.
Without quality photographs, no one will be able to help.
Acids eat the copper faster than the copper/nickel alloy. The core is 100% copper. Not an error. Not worth more than face value.
VERY CAREFULLY!
I have to make one of those dies!
I sometimes think back and wonder what if I had kept and searched them? How would I have made out? But then I remember the money I made while...
No.
Here are all of the 'real' ones: http://doubleddie.com/1467540.html
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You're grabbing at straws now. With the speed that the presses push out coins, no mint worker is fast enough to do this.
The star on NGC graded coins is not to identify any kind of toning. From NGC web site: NGC assigns a [IMG] to coins with exceptional eye appeal...
The key phrase here is "edge view". Get it now?
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