You should keep whatever pleases you.
As the dies wear out, elements of the design will also wear and additional die polishing reduces and/or eliminates parts of the design. Compare...
I believe that is the lens of the eye. This will present better as part of the design on an otherwise better strike.
On a couple of occasions I have purchased modern proofs in bulk from L&C coins, PCGS, in PF69 for around $5.00 each. Purchase was 20 coins for...
Awee gee, you'd have to ask. I guess I should have been more specific. I'm not really talking quality, hard to find coins, key dates and such. But...
Not sure anyone is reading anything about coins for sale in print anymore. But I have seen quite an uptick in ads offering ANACS, ICG and even...
Over polished die. This happened to various years and mint. 1969,70,71,80 and probably others but those are ones I have found. Nice find and a...
Looks cleaned to me and someone leaned into it behind the head.
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I could care less what it's worth. Nice find!
Yes, sounds like you did a boo boo. Always try to return to banks you did not get from and then switch around the opposite way.
These blues are "Simply Irresistible".
This begs the question...Is a set complete without the two positions? Or does it even matter when you cannot see them once in a folder or album.
Mostly all, if not all the doubling was on the bridge of the nose on these. There was also a lot of cracks coming from the foot of the climber to...
Certain years cents have fared better in quality than others. Almost always you will find Denver cents to be of a higher quality than Philly...
My birth year so it had to be a good year.
Cliff Mishler has been collecting this type of exonumia his entire life so one mans junk must surely be another's treasure.
Yep, my goof. I thought the Op's cent was a 1983.
Being only the 2nd year of zinc cents, this year was particularly hard to find in decent condition, even in solid date rolls. The Mint was still...
Did I miss April 1st? :D
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