"BU Proof" is an oxymoron. oxymoron - a of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side BU = Brilliant Uncirculated...
What is the mintmark? 'S' mintmark would be a silver Proof. 'P' or 'D' would be a Business Strike.
Welcome to CoinTalk. "Encased" is pretty much meaningless as is "in great condition". Can you post some good photos of your coins? What I am...
Yeah, I should have also inculded 63.
Cents struck in Philadelphia do not have a mintmark, even those struck 1980 and later.
* = pq
"BU" coins generally fall in the MS-60 to MS-62 range.
In spite of the bad photos I feel sure you have a cud. The "extra metal" on the obverse is metal that squeezed up because a part of the die broke...
I agree. I can't see the forest for the trees.
Cameo is a term to describe Proof and Prooflike coins that have frosted devices and dark fields. Camaro is a sports car manufactured by Chevrolet.
Proof coins are more than just "shiny". They are fully-struck with sharp details and square corners on the edge.
Yeah, the coin is out of focus (but at least your palm is in focus). It is impossible to say from your photo but it is possible that someone put...
Actually, that was my joke.
Probably an acid job where the clad coin was soaked in acid which dissolved the copper core leaving the cupro-nickel clad layers.
Look at the edges of the Roman numeral 3 (III) on the reverse and note how uneven the edges are.
Who's on first?
ricky, your communication skills are somewhat lacking here. We are trying to understand what you are saying but it is proving to be impossible....
What does that mean? Are you trying to say, "There is an obverse but no reverse."?
Maybe you see something I don't see but what I am seeing is a heavily-corroded 1920-S Lincoln Cent that is worth perhaps 5 cents to 10 cents.
The coin looks somewhat like many Byzantine coins I have seen but there are some things about it that make me think it is either not genuine or it...
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