After rereading fret's post I agree. I read it the way it was written and did not grasp what he had intended to say. When I first read that I...
Who graded the coin?
Except 1942.
The numerals in the date are doubled (from machine doubling) but the last digit has been sheared off by something later. So the last digit is PMD.
Tarnished. Probably from some environmental exposure. The coin could have been dropped on the ground and stayed there for a while. Clad coins that...
Huh?????? There is no mintmark on that coin.
OS, nickels are made of nickel (25% nickel and 75% copper). That is why they are called 'nickels'. This composition has been the same since...
But (as we saw above) they are confused every day. If SEGS has selected a different acronym (or if SGS had used a different acronym) they (SEGS)...
The 1909-S VDB has been a key date since . . . 1909.
The ring test is not failsafe. A genuine coin that has been in a fire can lose its ring. Cheap cast counterfeits usually do not have a ring like a...
I have gotten a handful in change but I have not kept an exact tally. From memory I think I have gotten two Hot Springs and one or two...
Contemporary counterfeits were made to deceive the shopkeeper and were made with less silver than a genuine half dollar - or no silver at all....
Nothing about it points to the coin being a fake. It appears to be a genuine CBH with honest wear. Is there something about the coin that makes...
There are two threads asking about the authenticity of the same coin. Same photo was used on both threads. See ikan's link for the other thread.
The OP has another thread with questions about this same coin as well as the 1877 IHC.
Take along a magnet. If the coin is attracted to the magnet it is a fake.
That looks like a die chip, not a cud. To be a cud the break must include the rim.
It looks like the dime is tarnished. Normal weight for a clad dime is 2.27 grams. Does your scale weigh to 0.1 grams? If so a coin that weighs...
Nick, You may get more responses by moving this thread to the World & Ancient Coins forum.
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