Straight clip on a 1707 or 1708 Swedish 1/6th ore (looks like 1707). Fairly common to find on these early coins.
Is loss of luster considered toning? I always looked at situations like this as a loss of the bright red thin outer layer from the coin being...
I think 45 is pushing it. Maybe 40. But, what are those lines on the bust? It's way too late of a year for adjustment marks, especially from a...
That's what I was saying before, you can't trust your eyes on stuff like this when looking at photos. Lack of depth from a 2-D image makes it an...
That's the bottom of the wheat leaf. The thin lines are the stems.
Those are the stems from the wheats
ping @mikediamond (not sure if he looks at threads outside the error section)
Those are the interior walls of the sunken area.
Eyes play tricks with incuse/relief in photos, but it's actually incuse. OP can confirm.
I'd be interested to know how a glob of glue would be incuse on the surface of a coin. :facepalm:
Double strikes and over-strikes are common on Russian copper coins from this era. I'm having difficulty figuring out which one yours is, but I'm...
The missing dentils in some areas is a red flag for a counterfeit coin struck from a transfer die. Genuine coins will have either full or partial...
There are fakes of all kinds of coins, whether it seems like there is any sense to fake them or not. Your coin is 100% counterfeit.
Very nice. For some reason these coins just don't tone this nice very often. Also so many of them have been dipped.
Too many good fakes of this coin to tell from pictures and given measurements. It has a certain appearance which would personally lead me to avoid...
looks more off center rather than broadstruck, but yea the size difference is there along with the lack of edge reeding. Cool find.
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