It looks like it has been improperly cleaned to me. Chris
Sometimes a "dropped element" can be impressed into the surface of a planchet when it is in the coining chamber, and it may or may not be...
I'm with paddy. I don't know how small areas missing the clad layer could be affected like this. I'm thinking that it might be due to an...
It looks like an "S" to me! Chris
Score! Chris
The Red Book is a good source for historical information and technical data like composition, mintage, etc. but it is not the best source for...
It looks like it might be a double strike to me, too. Maybe @Fred Weinberg would know. Nice photos, Larry! Chris
Welcome to the neighborhood, Heather! As paddy and rick suggested, your coin has been subjected to environmental damage and is not worth any...
Thanks, Larry! I haven't seen any of Charmy's show reports here for a while. Chris
Note to self: If someone offers to give me flying lessons when they have never flown a plane themselves, don't go! Chris
That's real rich! You stuck your foot in your mouth in the first place, and now the little baby is crying to daddy to bail him out. Chris
Could it be a jeton? Do you see a date on it? Chris
I don't count meaningless posts from an idiot. Chris
Where has Charmy been hiding lately! Does anyone know how Lou is doing? Chris
I still don't see anything that would be considered a strikethrough. Chris
What I try to convey to others who have asked similar questions is that you MUST HAVE an understanding of the minting process BEFORE you try to...
I can't see anything. It would have been better if you had 1) cropped out the extraneous background, 2) resized the image and 3) then used the...
These "trinkets" are commonly referred to as "encased coins", and were quite often offered as prizes in penny arcades. Usually, the horseshoe is...
As @baseball21 suggested, it's all in the "hype". When I was actively buying bags of business strike Kennedy half dollars and SQ's from the Mint,...
This isn't true! The only Mint Sets that were "handled with kid gloves" were the Satin Mint Sets, but the Mint gave up on this process. This is...
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