You go ahead and throw it in a flip. A few years will pass, you will be equipped with better knowledge. You might change your mind on this variety.
So, maybe the start to a Magicians two piece?
One usually starts with local position of the MM, then moves out to the leaf tips and position of the Arrow tips. I haven't searched the MM...
Are you sure this didn't happen with a like die being replaced upon failure. There seems to be a brockage involved.
I have never seen that CWT before. This one had the same design on both the obv and reverse? Do you have a reference? @johnmilton
So a fake. But how old. Do you think that this is a modern counterfeit?
It looks a lot like the second one from the top. Just half of the collar is gone.
I have never bought any business strikes. You could be right. Wasn't there red and blue boxed Eagles? Both proof?
I tried and tried to get a photos. The cracks are so minute that I would probably need a stereo microscope. On the forehead and hair is a bunch of...
Most folks are going to want the box and COA. Do you have them?
I thought I saw the same, but the same tones are on the coin, could be the lighting.
The lines don't fully remove. They show lightly, as the coin tones over again they show back heavy. It happens as the ingot is rolled to planchet...
Cool split die on the 1838P.
I would try the tissue test. It also could be plated, but the tones even look silver.
@Jack D. Young I know these are difficult to nail down variety's. But do you see anything that says counterfiet?
Thanks, I originally thought it might be a snuff type coin. "Two pieces" thats why I weighed it. But it's too heavy to be hollow in the middle....
Have you weighed it?
I have been going thru some old coins and had never noticed it before. And wouldn't have if I didn't find another 52. It seems the reverse looks a...
It's always a debacle around here surrounding these cents. Some say roller lines, some say improperly annealed/alloy.
Better hide it good cause someone's going to be pissed.
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