Unfortunately, I think you have an altered coin. Coins simply do not show heavy wear in one tiny area, and no where else. Sorry. :(
That will require examination of the coin by either a coin dealer, or a chemist/chemical engineer, or someone else with the requisite knowledge....
Hi Lisa and welcome to the forum. You probably have a coin which has been artificially altered by partially gold plating it or otherwise coloring...
Maybe National Dealer can resurrect some of the pertinent postings from the thread a while back on the subject of "becoming a dealer". ;)
My guess is late 18th/early 19th Century British farthing, half penny or penny. The schnozzola looks like George III, and the reverse could be...
My Beautiful Bride helps me out by translating legends and such on some of the Japanese tokens/medals that keep popping up masquerading as coins,...
If you hold down the ALT key while typing 155 on the number pad, not the top row it comes out ¢ . 156 comes out £ and 157 comes out ¥....
Of course it is. :D BTW - PM me for information about a nice bridge I have for sale cheap in the New York City area. :rolleyes:
What's the story on that '96 without a visible hole? Is the coin bent right at JFK's hairline?
I wish I knew whether any of my three oldest coins (all Indian, acquired as part of a large lot of world coins) are genuine, but in response to...
I'll give you the same three words as the answer to the old chestnut about "How do I get to Carnegie Hall?"...
At the rate the price of spot silver is increasing, they'll soon be worth at least $6. :D
Did I misunderstand your original postings? In an EBay auction main page both the name of the current high bidder and the number of bids...
Click here to see my candidate for stupidest EBayer yet! I am not a coin collector but have enjoyed researching this coin before listing it....
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Basically you can't go very far wrong sticking with the big four, but always remember that grading is subjective, so opinions about graders will...
Susan, you must have missed his post about the AAAA being an attempt at anonymity which went awry. He is maui009, with a feedback higher than...
That's the way it is supposed to work, since he was the first bidder, and his max was enough to win the auction. As other bidders push up the bid...
Nice! What are the specs?
We do have an available copy of the book you request and will be happy to send it out to you. That's the ANA librarian talking about Chinese...
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