Back in the 60s, any 50-year-old dime or quarter was 90% silver, today it's copper-nickel clad - a MUCH harder metal.
I think he wanted 175, but I didn't actually ask...
One of the dealers as Saturday's coin show had 24 of them selling essentially as 1/10th oz
Those aren't sealed either, so you can have a little fun and swap coins... Oh and they got shut down for running a stolen property ring... Albon...
PMD and I'll second acid - the granular look of the reverse shows differential removal of the copper vs. the nickel
If you want to lighten your wallet by $50, give it to charity... and spend the damaged cent.
First off, these are not "sealed" in a slab. That's a Capital Plastics holder and can be opened with a screwdriver (carefully, as the screws are...
Start assuming it's circulation wear and hits from other coins. Really look to see how the metal got pushed around...
What you are missing is that he got smacked by the teacher for using a pocket knife in class. Teacher kept the kinfe and spent the cent.
Looks like gold highlight on the eagle. And some kind of environmental exposure. Neither adds value. Damaged Spender
To add to @ldhair - if your camera can shoot raw, or raw+jpg do so and definitely keep the raw file. Yes they run 20MB each, but storage is cheap...
Set up an assembly line... Shoot all the full slabs at once. You can fuss to get the lighting and camera position correct, then position click...
VF or worse
Sorry, it's not coins... throw it back
And I thanked you for it because the cert# set a new low mark in my tracking... everyone I had seen of this style was in a fairly narrow range in...
Interesting grade on the '52 - dinged for the reverse is my bet, the slight item in the C at about K4 [ATTACH] and the "fins" aren't well defined...
There's usually a minimum auction buyers premium of $15 or 20 bucks. Look for that too if you buy cheap items. If you bid $100 you'll pay $117...
Big difference between a modern fake of an old coin and a contemporary counterfeit that circulated around the time...
Always thought it was a shame they shutdown and couldn't make a go of it. Especially as where the PCI name and shells ended up was a crime (truth).
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