It's a moonie... The Queen with a bear behind
Acid... i don't remember which, but one is much more aggressive on copper than nickel. So it ate away at the copper core and left that granulated...
http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79070677/ Looks like there are copies of the 1975 edition in two South African libraries, the Getty (LA) and...
Vice job coin (Google it)
Counterpunched/counterstamped - Google them. Considered damaged and worth 1c
Arguably if people had looked at coins with this level of attention... the 1919 Mercury dime DDO would have been found in the twenties instead of 2014
Nice @ldhair, love the ragged digits in the year
The $0.03 rate came about as a reduction in the postage rate. The networks of roads and railroads had substantially reduced the cost and the...
@Evan8 Neat... Also, that's a different die... notice on the reverse how much more developed the arrows and leaves are on yours. On mine they're...
Sure, that was the whole point of the counterfeits... at least post war, as coins returned to the marketplace, to pass a quick observation by...
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So... the customer service people at SilverTowne aren't numismatists. Probably obvious they're hired for their CS skills, not as numismatists...
Double post - dratted debounce
From the prevalence of OPs finds across multiple years, it appears as though the Icelandic mint isn't properly hardening their dies. Either not...
Interesting... I suspect there is enough detail in the NGC before shot and the after pic to forensically identify that it's the same coin. As...
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The general rule is don't clean coins because it's so easy to destroy their numismatic value. If the coin is valuable have it conserved...
Exactly opposite of the truth. Either you mis-understood/mis-remembered or s/he's an idiot. MINTING coins uses a press to stamp designs with a...
Why don't you file a ticket w/ Google voice recognition to have that fixed. I'm sure they'll hop right on it.
As long as we're being a pedantic chucklehead, pennies are UK coins cents are American.
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