Not an error. PMD. Somebody ground off the reverse
I've been in your situation many times in my early collecting days and bought inferior coins at cheap prices to fill holes. I heard all the...
Looks more like severely environmentally damaged
As others have said, in that condition it's worth $10 +/-. However, picking it up for $2 was still a great buy. Cool coin with an interesting...
It's a retained Cud. Cool find.
Sorry, but they are environmental damage
Doesn't matter if you use a $14000 handheld model or one in an analytical lab that costs more than 10x that, the X-rays only penetrate a short...
What a cool idea. I may consider starting a collection. A quick look shows about 64 dates between 1500 and 2000. I have a lot of old European...
Alas, I've already bought tickets. And I've had a number of statistics courses in the past and actually know how the odds are calculated. Go figure
Good advice, especially when buying $1.6 Billion Mega Millions tickets
I can't comment on the quality, but 3 decimals with a standard weight for calibration should be perfect for a numismatist.
You can get inexpensive calipers at Harbor Freight. They are good enough for measuring coin dimensions
Quarter was from the supermarket. The dime may have been from a local convenience store or Coffee place. I'm pretty certain that the quarter was...
The edge of a silver coin is solid silver colored. The edge of a clad coin has a layer of copper sandwiched between the 2 silver layers. If you...
@Expiri59 Post a clear, cropped pic of the edge. This is the easiest way to verify. If it has potential (don't get your hopes up), then getting...
@Loushan You need to post a pic. Your odds of finding a cent struck on a dime planchet, or an unplated zinc cent is extremely low. However,...
Last silver was about 3 years ago. Got a quarter then about 2 weeks later I got a dime. It had been about 2-3 years before that since I got...
A silver planchet weighs 6.25 grams, a clad planchet weighs 5.67 grams. Weigh it on an accurate, calibrated scale and you'll have your answer....
Machined doubled. No extra value. Telling the diff between a true doubled die and machine doubling can be difficult for new error collectors. Go...
Agree. Austrian Notgeld. Notgeld translates to emergency or necessity money. Many towns in Germany and Austria issued notgeld after WWI due to...
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