Somebody was playing with a vise!
I'd ordinarily say "no, it shouldn't make much difference" -- but that last photo REALLY makes it look like gold plating has flaked off and...
Now, that looks promising!
I assume there was nobody in an appropriate position of power who wanted to stir things up.
There seem to be multiple mysteries around image uploads for this particular XenForo installation. If I remember it when I'm on the right machine...
If enough people keep buying at these prices, the Mint has no incentive to drop premiums. If enough people don't keep buying at these prices,...
Good eye! Erm, "well-spotted"? Or something. Neat find, in any case!
I figure Coke cleans metal mainly because of two things: its acidity (due to CO2 and phosphoric acid), and its fizziness (due to CO2), which...
MEF: Mint Employee Fraud. The perfect classification for this, the various struck-on-pocket-contents examples, and the 1913 Liberty nickels....
I wonder exactly how confident the PCGS folks can be that this was done at the Mint, and not by some enterprising entrepreneur with fake cent...
Well, it's certainly better than drinking the stuff.
He's persistent. It's like being lucky, only it actually works.
Judging from the images, "missing both clad layers AND copper core".
These make me wonder -- are split-planchet errors known for Zincolns? I don't know whether the planchet production process would let a zinc blank...
As I understand it, they were minting them. But since there were no S-mint-mark coins after 1955, I don't remember whether SF participated.
Up. There. No, higher than that.
The Mints stopped putting mintmarks on coins with the 1965-dated issues (they were still striking 1964-dated coins well past the end of that...
I'm assuming from the way it's rotting that it's a Zincoln; it would take some work to make a bronze cent look like that. Lincoln Memorial cents...
Always hard to tell from static photos, but that looks to me like discoloration from heat. I see something similar on a $2.50 classic head that...
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