Looks normal to me.
Doesn’t look like silver to me. Even dirty silver is lighter in color.
That is a beautiful snake coin.
This is a Broadstruck cent. Not mine but it was struck out of the collar and that’s what a Broadstruck coin is. Yours is PMD as it was removed...
I’d go to my LCS or an online dealer that I trust. No one else is considered.
That’s the way the coin was designed.
I’d call it a delamination error. It may have been on the planchet before it had a rim. If you look under Lincoln’s chin, that’s where it broke...
If you think it’s tough to find them in modern notes try to find them in older obsolete or CSA Notes. Here’s a few of my CSA Notes. [ATTACH]...
You gave me a good laugh! If I could I’d give you a second like.
If you enlarge the last photo you should be able to see the 7 under the 9.
Very nice but AU-58 is probably the grade.
It’s difficult to get a photo of the over date but it’s there. It has been identified but it’s not graded by a TPG. Inside the 9 on the top right...
It looks like a pocket coin to me. You just keep rubbing it with your thumb for a few years.
It’s normal and welcome to CT.
It’s not even close. :woot:
Done like to deface the coin and try and sell selling fir an error. Others, they just think it’s fun.
If it’s raised, then it’s a die chip. Hard to tell from those small photos.
Just a normal business strike that has aged very well and still looks attractive after 59 years.
MS-64 not FS but very nice looking.
Not necessarily. It could be a planchet defect or a number of other things. Welcome to CT.
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