This coin has been harshly cleaned IMO. The very unnatural and bright high spots on the obverse.
Hard to tell a joke around here.
When the apocalypse comes and all the silver and gold is irradiated, the people holding pure copper will be the only ones able to trade for food...
Was unable to find the answer you seek. Sometimes a number will be over inked, but to be the same one, like you said it must be the same part...
Struck out.
Fred seemed to indicate that the blob B was a die chip, which is an error. Although not valuable. It would be an error because it happened at the...
Copper is $2.68 a pound. Why pay $40? Grams in a pound 453.592 so 500 grams is around 1.1 lbs. Which is $3 worth of copper. As for copper pennies,...
It was my understanding, that even though lighter, the zinc cents had the same +/- .13 tolerance. Has this been updated to .10? Thank you.
Mark Hoffman (convicted felon) who confessed to making this coin, (the secret service says there's no evidence he made it) if he had the dies why...
I don't think that was the intention. I think that part was an accident.
This is not true. A number of 1983 cents have been discovered on copper planchets. And a few later dates than that as well. One of the off metal...
Sterling silver is 92.5%. Except for some of the trimes, I think all US coin silver is 90/10. Current silver proofs seem to be .999
Getting back to the authenticity of the coin. What does it weigh? I assume they can do a metal analysis without harming the coin. Is there a...
I read that also. "In 1987, Baller sent the coin to the United States Department of Treasury, and agent Richard M. McDrew responded with a letter...
Spender. Damaged.
Initially I thought fingerprint. (Before reading other posts.) But I don't know, and it's an odd pattern. While it may not be struck through...
I have found silver dimes on the shelf at least twice. I can envision someone putting it in and having it rejected a number of times when they...
1955 S is very common in high grades. I doubt this is MS-65 and more likely worth 0.75-1.25.
The patina on the war nickels are very different. While it is possible that some 1946 nickels were struck on leftover war nickel planchets, this...
It is a very good story and part of numismatic lore now. When they auction this coin, do they put the disclaimer that they take no financial...
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