Good luck
No, but it might well be plated and the plating would have increased the weight. Are your scales correct?
I think he is referring to the gold tone that the coin has acquired. This happens sometimes on silver coins and is natural and not really uncommon.
Plaudits to ICG... do you think @Insider might have graded that one :)
Shhh, I don't either, but if I am corrected I will have learned something.
Wouldn't say that it "leads" to BD as much as say aids it.
Debates on slabbing a coin have waged for as many years as they have been slabbed. Increasing the value as far as appearance is debatable, but...
Thanks, and I should probably tag @Barry Murphy
I think that is Alexander's name, and I don't know how common a doubled die of this ancient coin is.
If it is MAD on both sides, I think that is called an off-center strike.
It was in 1886 that the electrolysis process of making aluminum from its ore became a reality. Before this, aluminum was one of the most...
I know it is not a big thing to grade and slab ancients, but I have a question and will tag @Insider and @BadThad here also. The question is...
@Fred Weinberg what do you think?
Kind of up to you. Clipped planchets sell for a few bucks, but aren't all that rare. I have a couple I have kept.
The tail on the last 5 makes me think it is a "Poor Man's Doubled Die"
Just a fun fantasy piece used as a paper weight. If you have any coins you need identified, people here are knowledgeable and usually willing to...
Could be a "Woodie" a cent in which the components of the alloy didn't mix properly and it results in a wood grain. I like it.
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Probably about that same age for me, turned out it was a school "friend" and he put it all in a pinball machine...
(Sarcasm...reading another thread) Should they apply or a Green or Gold Bean for that coin? :)
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