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Congratulations and Good Luck on staying straight.
@Karen Alba if you really want to try, the camera (or cellphone) must be very steady and motionless. Put the phone on an upside down water glass...
Actually decomposed DOP would give phthalic acid which might damage the metal. Or, as @-jeffB sez, PVC can produce HCl on degradation. It...
Perhaps @paddyman98 can show you some of his.
Wow, quoting BooksB4Coins... If the coin is semi magnetic, it probably means it is coated with iron.
My favorite "lost find" was from a dealer friend who, as a kid, noticed the 1955 cent he was given in change looked "doubled". The merchant told...
The photos are so out of focus, I don't think we can tell anything. You could take it to a local dealer and see what he says.
No, but dryer coins often have odd rims.
Assuming the "sticky" stuff is dioctylphthalate (DOP), how would that degrade anything?
So, what do you use to polish them?
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@GARY R COYIER when you reply, use the "reply" at the bottom and it automatically repeats the post you replied to.
Maybe like that baseball coin buckled... :)
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Refresh my memory, but didn't we have a posting a few years back where someone (I think in England) found a 1793 cent in a coffee can in a garden...
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I think all of them are valuable errors.
They appear to be where someone took a semicircular punch of some kind and punched the coin. Not mint marks. On the bright side, it is 40% silver.
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