Dies with the same design from different years will often show similar die cracks in the same locations simply because the stresses from striking...
The mint had nearly four years in which to acquire copper planchets, they would not have rushed to do so in 2005. And your coin shows plating...
And gold plating of coins post mint is not uncommon.
That's were I got the information I posted.
Not sure what the first two things are (possibly VERY crude dies), the coin looks like a contemporary counterfeit. It MAY have been made from the...
This makes extra sense since the end was outside the coining chamber, it has a Full Head.
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Thickness of the initial blank. Specific gravity of 900 fine coin silver is 10.34 grams per cubic centimeter. A 12.5 gram blank 3.06 cm in...
Series 2009 star note produced for the Cleveland Federal Reserve, they made 3,200,000 of them at the Dc facility in April 2011 and they are...
The Freemason stamp was added after it left the mint, and the silver color probably indicates a post mint nickel or silver plating. If it is...
They have to make them BECAUSE they are just sitting around in jars. Especially cents. Todays coins have such low purchasing power that it is...
Yep it is a quarter, no question. I called it a quarter in another thread that only showed the obv, now that the reverse is shown it is...
Now I need a black one. Another one I want is one of the transparent smoke gray ones they used internally for transporting them. I've seen one...
Well that does give us one important piece of information. I have seen these popping up from time to time for years. Knew what they were, but...
If the depicted relationships are accurate, it is a significant rotated die error. These are not overly valuable though so probably less than $15...
Yep, that's what it is a 1971 Philadelphia half dollar.
The densities are quite different, Copper is 8.96 and silver is 10.5. Silver is almost 15% higher. The last two pictures look like a regular...
Well worn 1943 cent, made from zinc plated steel because copper was a restricted war material and the mint was not allocated sufficient copper by...
Yes it is a decent coin, but it has nothing to do with the topic of the thread, 1982 cents.
Nice die cracks and I think the section between the two crack below the first 9 may be starting to form a retained cud. If the die continued in...
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