Hi all, hope you are all well as can be. This 1923 D peace dollar has a mintmark i would like explained to me. Can someone with experience in...
It was still in contact with the die or other part of the machinery as it was being ejected, leaving the deep gouge. The metal from the gouge...
Unless it is the photo i would say harshly cleaned as there appears to be NO remaining lustre left on the coin only a dull lighter shade to some...
Had a rethink, New Orleans but only because the 3 looks high
It looks frosty, so probably a P
Este bien no pasa nada. I only saw the difference in his title and his text after i saw that the coin was wrong.
Benefit of the doubt, he actually put small cent in his tags and text, just a typo in the title
irregular color difference at outside of the edge. Possibly struck through something in what looks to be a well worn reeding collar die
Nice. Is that a die crack through middle of 88to7 in the date?
@Kelly Capone I reiterate the above. I inherited a smallish collection at the end of February and didn't have the first clue about the collecting...
Pictures please
either a lathe or the collar was that shape, how many of that anomaly were struck?
@Insider thank you for these quizzes. If they continue i consider them one of the best learning mediums for newcomers like me to more understand...
The dots are possibly the original colour of the coating substance that were slightly thicker due to gravity when the coin was suspended...
An un-natural concave edge possibly because the rim was abnormally raised and the metal was unable to flow correctly when struck
Irregular spaced dots possibly remnants of solder from a jewellry casing or imprints from a damaged collar
Surely the grade of a coin has a bearing on potential worth, not the other way round
It's a dead cert 66 but you could probably achieve 67
poorly annealed planchets
very similar to the patterns on the hide of a giraffe or leopard
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