Circular damage comes from high speed coin wrapping machines - the metal fingers dig out a groove. Run coins through the HSCWM enough times and...
No A cud is a defect in the die at the rim. This is machine doubling (MD) - zero value - and something growing on the coin. Wash your hands....
It could have been the rim of another coin after it left the striking chamber. It could be an elevator door in Macy's in 1975. Either way damage...
There is a perfect pair that has been on fleaBay for six months for around $400 - no bites. There was a single piece for sale for $60 for about...
Sorry, not a fan of videos - too small a portion of the image is devoted to the coin and the motion blurs the picture.
Almost certainly PMD (Post Mint Damage)
No... just environmental damage, probably lost in a flower bed for a while or similar. The give away is the dark color and that it's both sides...
Environmental Damage...
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@Kennethj it's considered really bad form here at CT to hijack somebody's thread to ask about an unrelated coin. It's also far better to start...
You buy the Red Book for the wealth of knowledge it contains not the prices. Those are - at best - full retail and out of date due to publication...
Read small dollars... It was deliberate... But thought not to be a big deal. Selling 5000 or 10000 coins ahead in a high visibility promotion was...
The Cheerios Dollars were minted with a proof die (not polished) to meet production demands around the coin launch and the promotion. There is no...
Read don't watch... 99.44% of the YouTube coin videos are offal...
5c or a little more ... it's not a silver war nickel There's no D over S variety -- https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/1941-s-5c/4012
5c Die deterioration - letters spread towards the rim - and a lot of circulation wear/damage
@Conder101 I tend to think they are different... The one @ddddd posted doesn't have the ACG initials in the mold. The new one does. I recall...
Need smarter friends, preferable with reading skills. https://www.greysheet.com/coin-prices/series-landing/lincoln-cents-memorial-reverse/...
Sucker... I bought all 5 known from AliExpress for less.
Reviving this (for @ddddd) because I bought a new NGS slab. No, not something I found in an out of the way pawn shop for $20, this was bought from...
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