Held against a motorized soft wire brush.
It MIGHT be a repunched mintmark, or it might be machine doubling damage, I can't tell which from those photos.
Extra little tidbit about the 1936 dot cent that it seems a lot of people don't know, For several decades all three of the known 1936 dot cents...
As a general rule the graders at the top TPG's DO NOT use a microscope on the coins. In fact if you talk to them you will find that 90% of the...
Truthfully no many of the people watching and buy from those shows do not know that the mint sells them, or if they do they don't know how to get...
When you consider that the color on the ten is due to ink printed on the note and not inherent to the paper itself it has to be a stained note.
There are several different die varieties for these things and that can affect the value considerably. You say it is like the one pictured in the...
I wonder if this is the same coin. This is the fourth time I have seen a 1911 silver plated proof cent. It seems to show up about evey five years.
Since 1999 the proof sets are just snap together and can be opened with your fingernails with no damage or evidence showing on the case.
The V nickel could be called a Barber Nickel, it was designed by William Barber,
For one thing, look at the edge of the coin. The steel cents were struck on planchets that had been punched out of zinc plated steel strip. So...
No I don't like the idea. Palladium is a truly rare precious metal with a lot of industrial demand. Annual world production of palladium is only...
No it would NOT have a reeded edge. The reeds on a 10 cent piece are created when the coin is struck. The edge of the planchet is smooth. (The...
The coin pictured is not a partial collar (or railroad rim, which is another name for the same error.) That is a coin showing evidence of a...
Canadian dies are chrome plated and sometimes the plating will flake off causing a raised dot. They usually aren't any where near that large....
Well if you have searched 1,000 rolls, you have searched the equivelent of .00055% of the annual production from one mint. Or .00027% of one...
There are no W's in the red tokens, they are all in the blue tokens. Four of the W varieties are a little tough but they are available. The rare...
They wre each minted for ten weeks not two weeks, and due to greatly increased production they made almost as many coins in each of those ten week...
Magicians trick coin. Show a half dollar then flip the insert and the half dollar changes into a Mexican 20 centavo.
And usually they tend to be just about 5 grams light, just like his coin.
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