If you look at it you can see where somebody scraped away the corrosion to reveal the copper underneath. There's no doubt it's a large cent.
Sure would be fun though :D
First of all it's a fake coin. It first suffered corrosion, and then somebody (one they'd found it) scraped, filed, or ground away the plating to...
Well, kinda but not really. NGC will add a short note that may say - harshly cleaned obv or whatever. And PCGS puts a code number on the slab, and...
Pretty much all mints document everything. For example, when Stahl wrote Zecca, he found the original mint documents for the Venetian mint dating...
Frank, clear back in April of 2007 the doctors all told me I had less than a year to live. And every time I've seen one since, they just shake...
I think it would take more than a chop mark to do that. I've seen many coins with chop marks and not one ever had corresponding marks on the...
It depends on the coin and what they (the TPGs) know about it. There are actual off metal strikes, have been for centuries. They are usually test...
Now Frank if you had fulfilled your part of the bargain, you'd already have your likes from me. The fact that you don't speaks volumes ;)
Apparently Jim was posting while I was still typing my response, he could easily be correct. They could have been substituting the term "glazed"...
I'll grant you that is what a lot of people think in today's world, but it really isn't true. If you harshly clean a coin with an abrasive, of any...
Yes, bronze is tin and copper and brass is copper and zinc. But with an issue like this it is more a matter of the color of the coin than anything...
That large lump down beside the D in Dollar, I don't know what it is but that's not from any rusted die. Nor would it be found on any genuine coin...
I've never heard the term glazed used to describe a coin either, but I suspect it has something to do with the application of a foreign material...
There's a lot to know about counterfeits Daniel, far more than could ever be discussed here on this forum. There are several entire books...
On the whole, yes the statement is true. In terms of sheer numbers there are absolutely more examples of counterfeit modern coins than there are...
Yeah, my bar had a jukebox and a cigarette machine that took halves. That was in the mid '80s.
We're gonna have to agree to disagree on that.
Christian my immediate thought upon reading that was that they were afraid of the govt. thinking that they had coins and that possibly leading to...
Rich, the criteria for the PL designation, and the DMPL designations, and the CA and DCAM designations, are published and spelled out by both NGC...
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