1857, everything after that is either an alloy or plated. Those before 1857 are pure copper (or at least they are suppose to be.)
Another way to tell it is an S-1 is to draw an imaginary line down through the I in AMERICA (which is visible on this coin) On the S-1 it passes...
The practice of having the sme design on all the coins was not unique to this country. In fact that was the standard practice in most countries...
All of the 2009 Proof Lincoln cents are copper. They dd not make any copper plated zinc 2009 proofs.
And leave it black. It looks great just the way it is.
I believe newer versions of image manipulation programs such as Photoshop are also written to now recognize banknotes and they will not allow you...
I'll just stick with my credit union. Minimum balance for savings account $5 Minimum balance for Checking account $0 Monthly fee for Savings...
Yes this is the annual state show. As mentioned the aisles are a little tight but it is an enjoyable show. On Saturday at 1:00 PM they have a YN...
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And that is how I took it. I needled, you needled back, all in fun. The pictures show a very small COPY, but in his later post he indicated that...
They have made 3 billion cents this year. Each one contains .05 grams of copper so they have used 165 tons of copper. Annual production of...
Yes it is a colonial. (Actually it is a state issue and not really a colonial. The war was over and Connecticut was no longer a colony when this...
And maybe he was just robbing her and just happened to luck out getting a coin collection that he didn't know anything about.
Their earlier slabs (known as no-line fatties) do look like they are thicker than the later slabs. But from measurements I have taken this is an...
And was lifted whole from a button. :)
In 2001 it took 70 Z$ to equal 1 US$. If they hadn't done the currency revaluations in 2006, 2008, and 2009 it would have taken...
OK, in that case they would be legal. I guess he used a much smaller punch for his pictures so the punch wouldn't look so obvious. It would...
Must not know too many venues. Every auction house charges the local sales tax on those items delivered at the auction site, and the appropriate...
Well they are not deceptive enough to fool an experienced collector, and they are marked COPY, but they are still not legal. The size of the COPY...
Would probably be classed as a die chip.
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