Die deterioration and metal flow from the strike, The lettering is producing a "shadow effect" while the metal flows more between the letters....
So the next person who finds it can come ask one of the online forms about it. Or just try and sell it on ebay as a major error.
Die cracks with pieces chipping out of the die below the D.
Finding a new CLASS of error would be most unusual, but finding an error in a known class where no other specimen is known is possible. But since...
Two other clues that the op coin is not a die adjustment strike. The coin has strong rims, the rims are some of the last areas to strike up, so...
No scam, no fraud, not really misrepresented (he calls it tall letters, well it is unless you can find one with taller letters) , and he can ask...
I've mentioned it several times in the past.
When it was made ito a watch it may have only been worth 50 cents. Even if it was done later it was probably only a couple dollars.
Solder, the lighter area around the "cud" is where the flux melted and spread removing the oxide layer from the coin (That's what the flux is for...
A bit of information, to make the clad strip the copper and clad layer before bonding are much thicker than the final coins. They are bonded...
Wow, how old are those quotes? The cent hasn't cost less than a cent to make since about 2007. It has been unprofitable for about 13 years.
Yep, some do, and dealers also have a lot of collectors that buy sets and immediately sell them to them. So very shortly after a new issue come...
Well the colloquial term for the cent did not come from the British, it was based on the New York Money of Account. New York was the financial...
Another problem is the very low relief used on coins today, it is very difficult to get a good design with such relief. In the past the mint...
Yes it is ugly, sales fo far through 8/30 is 6,664 pieces. Be interesting to see what nexts weeks report is since most of these new comm dollars...
Looks normal and the mintark has taken a hit that has slighly flattened the lower half and pushed some metal from the right hand side into the...
Cold = Could too = top Could it be top of the line? Translation I think, "So what is the green film, gold like substance (that shows) under a...
Haven't heard anything like that, do you have a source? It would be a good idea though, the sooner the better. What will happen to the ones in...
No, but that isn't unusual. Historically there have never been a lot of young people at shows. Loot at convention pictures from the early ANA...
I think it needs a complete rewrite. It rambles, doesn't make much sense, seems to imply that PCGS is the problem, and then in the last sentence...
Separate names with a comma.
