This would be an interesting piece to do an XRF test on. I suspect possibly a contemporary counterfeit.
Next test coming up for me will be the Show in Columbus (Dublin) OH on Labor day weekend. I did confirm this past weekend that it is still on....
The hole is were a piece of the coin fell away post strike, The lamination fell off the coin.
One I can think of off the top of my head were the two workers convicted of smuggling out errors from the Philadelphia mint back in 2000,...
And the coin is not a broadstrike. From the images it is clear the reeded edge is present which means it was struck in the collar.
And the weight is within tolerance for the steel cent.
Unless they had others and wanted a couple to be found in circulation to establish plausibility.
The first pictures were inconclusive, but the last two pictures of the rev have me convinced the marks are the result of post strike damage.
The silver high relief medals follow the design of the 100 dollar high relief gold coins and I believe they do those every other year (I have no...
Too much work. You just buy the bag of 5,000 wheats, roll them with the dime on the end and sell them to the suckers, No need to go through the...
So that one pound sterling draft represented somewhere between 3.5 and 10 days pay.
I personally call them roller marks, or planchet striations (my preferred tem). The source of the marks on the rollers is still metal on metal...
Planchet would probably have to have come from strip rolled for 1975 or 1976 Philippines 1 Sentimo coins, most likely 1976. Those were the only...
It's really quite simple. They have access to a counter/rolling machine. You set it for rolling cents and load the paper. Toss in a dime. Wait...
Unless they have made a change recently they don't have separate listings for the GSA coins and don't even mention them in the text, or at least...
I posted a brief one on another forum. Show floor was larger than usual, dealer attendance was down, maybe 50 dealers at most. this allowed the...
Looks like deliberately removed.
Striations typically refers to LINEAR lines running across the coins which are the result of the rolling out of the strip that the blanks are...
Yes it is a proof, and it looks to me like a type 2.
Never wipe a coin with a cloth, it can leave hairlines which can devalue the coin.
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