It is a parking lot coin. It has been run over by cars causing the damage you see. I would spend it.
Chris, I was talking about the Blue Sheet, not the Grey Sheet. The Grey Sheet is for "Sight-Seen . . . U.S. coins - Certified or Raw". The...
How can you get an approximate value if the coins are undergraded "by up to 5 grades"? And as far as "better filing for insurance" what...
Your coin has been altered. Someone filed the edge of your cent to make what appears to be reeding. I would bet that if you looked at the valleys...
merlin, Also understand that all MS-65 Connecticuts are not the same. Some barely qualify as MS-65; if we graded to one decimal point they may...
$450/$485 is for MS-65. Grey Sheet assumes the coin has been accurately graded. Raw or slabbed does not matter. If you want the CDN for slabbed...
$450/$485
Your coin is not silver or silver clad. It is copper-nickel clad.
rascal, You need to work on your reading and comprehension skills. Nowhere did I state the OP's 2000-D Cent could be made out of steel. Let me...
Some of us my not want to answer that question on a public forum due to security concerns.
ncg, Just for the record, coins are struck, not stamped.
lara, Clad coins are like a sandwich - a copper core in the middle and copper-nickel layers. The copper core of the coin is visible on the edge...
That is known as the edge. The copper-nickel layers with a copper are normal for a clad coin.
Without pics we would only be guessing. Have you weighed the coin? Every coin struck from 1965 through 1967 did not have a mintmark regardless...
I would agree - one of a kind is very rare. In fact it is unique.
It must be good!!
To estimate the value of a coin you must first determine its condition. You can trust the seller (not always the wisest thing to do), you can...
ANA members can buy insurance at a group rate for their collections. I don't know the rate but from what I have heard it is attractive. I have...
That's a pretty cynical outlook.
There is no need to post your question in multiple threads. It makes things confusing.
Separate names with a comma.