It looks like it should be on its own thread
African lion on the Lions Club silver dollar. Bighorn sheep on the Denali quarter. Elk on the Olympic Washington quarter.
There are over 350 different varieties of Connecticut coppers and the engraving quality varies widely.
You'll have to ask the guy who engraved the die why he only used 12. Good luck with that.
The other two reverse is shown are type II reverse hubs. Your coin is a type one reverse hub. Two different designs.
chascat, You had a coin that had been given an opinion. You asked for another opinion, and they gave it to you. You don't like the new opinion,...
What you're looking at, but the "D" is too low too large. I wonder if it could be were a glued on D has fallen off.
It used to be the shows it in on Sunday, but the dealers started leaving Saturday night and early Sunday and most of the day on Sunday the show...
As far as I know the mint does not anneal and burnish blanks before they're sent to the upsetting machine.
Very impressive large cent. As for the dealers leaving some of them pulled out Friday night and others were gone by Saturday afternoon....
Okay I'll agree with the 18 be when I was looking at it last night lighting wasn't good and it didn't look like the junction of the hair and...
The confusion is PCGS's fault. If you have a 1988 with reverse of 89, PCGS labels them as 1988 reverse of 89 wide AM. People see that and think...
But a "type II blank planchet" should just be called a planchet. If it's "type II" it's a planchet, and blank planchet is redundant. Type II blank...
The only problem with that is there's no such thing as a type II blank or a type I planchet. A strike on a blank should be called "struck on a...
Yet another reason to think it was "helped", a lot of helped errors came out of San Francisco around then. Not saying that it's not genuine, as...
Almost certainly a plated sent inside a bezel. Pictures would help, but I would recommend starting your own thread and not attaching it to one...
Haven't considered what it grade, and I have determined the variety yet, but from what I can see I will say I don't believe it is a head of 93. I...
Of course today PCGS does hold the coins and using prongs.
4.8 g is just a HAIR outside mint tolerance range. The amount out of tolerance is so small it will not demand any premium.
Only if people are sucking on their cents.
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