Looks like the machine that seals the envelope snagged it?
It is just glue, the reversed Lincoln Memorial on the obverse is where it was stuck to another coin.
Are you asking about the coin in this post or do you have one that you want information on?
You can post a picture here, someone can surely help. I wouldn't get my hopes up too much though, sounds like it could be a filled die or...
Yes, heavily corroded. It seems like most of the wheat cents I find metal detecting look about like this.
If it sticks to a magnet, there is no need to go any further, it is most likely plated.
Picture is very blurry, but it looks like a large date. Clearer pictures would be a help.
You are probably in the ball park. Better condition common notes sell in the $30 to $40 dollar range.
Looks like a small die chip. No value in that. The coin has been harshly cleaned, if it did have value that would have really hurt it.
Pictures a bit blurry, but it may be a small die chip. No added value for that, also the coin appears to have been harshly cleaned, if it did...
I think there is something there. Varieties are not my thing, but could it be a re punched mint mark?
I forgot about him, he posted pretty regularly for a while.
1916, Woodrow Wilson is president, war is raging in Europe but the US has yet to enter, the Titanic and Lusitania disasters are fresh in peoples...
Yup,that is one of the ones I was looking at, and there are other smaller ones. It is the same coin.
Clear photos of the whole coin before and after would certainly help, but I can see some small marks in exactly the same location in both...
Agreed, I don't know much about the collection but it was a big Connecticut collection with an amazing number of R7 varieties and condition census...
Absolutely, sometimes you have to. A coin you don't expect to find pops up and there is no way to tell when you might find another.
I guess it is not much of a pedigree, but I won one Connecticut copper in Stack's and Bowers sale of the Twin Leaf collection March 1 of this...
It is a "Texas cent" you can make them by putting a cent between two pieces of leather and pounding it with a hammer. It enlarges the coin...
I don't see how it could be overstruck on only one side, you need two dies to strike a coin.
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