OHNS (Original Hobo Nickel Society) can authenticate and grade your coin. Please post a good photo.
Why do you start two threads with the same exact question?
The photos are pretty blurry but that does in fact look like a doubleD die.
I can see the dent alright. The reason I requested better images is so I can look for die diagnostics to determine if your coin is a genuine...
Can you take the coin out of the holder and get a better image of it? In focus would help.
We will need a better image (preferably a photo) to be able to tell you much.
That is sad. And coming so soon after losing Cameron. This will be a sad Christmas season for several families.
Many of the old, poor counterfeits were not gold or were gold plated or were less than 90% gold. The counterfeiter made his money by shorting the...
Sounds like you have it bad. The good part of it is there is no cure. Before you get excited and go out and buy a bunch of coins or, heaven...
Will do.
Brian, Please pass along my heartfelt sympathies to his family. Do you know if the funeral will be held in Colorado or California?
It's still fake.
I live in Colorado and I am familiar with that beer. I live a long way from California but here are two coin-related beers produced by Alpine...
No pickie, no guessie.
elijah, A double-struck coin is a coin that was struck twice by the dies. A double-strike is a pretty good error to find. If the rim is the only...
A coin with a weak strike will still have luster on the weakly struck areas if it is uncirculated. If the luster is broken on the high points...
Most collectors use the terms 'mint state' and 'uncirculated' interchageably. I may be all wet but to me the word 'mint' in the term 'mint...
That's pretty cold. If you had known him perhaps you would feel differently.
Beginning about 1990 the Mint placed mintmarks on the original model so the mintmark is on the Master Hub all the way down to the Working Dies....
This morning I got confirmation of Cameron's death from a very reliable source. Yes, there was a suicide in the Denver area on Monday where a...
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