Great finds as always! Peanut butter and jealous.
Your *Nickel* is worth 5 cents. At least until you post pictures of the reverse as well.
Those are great looking coins @dougsmit. I wish mine would have more legend but I'm not complaining since it was only about $2. When it came in it...
The only thing I have found thus far regarding my coin is that it was minted in Rome: http://www.coinproject.com/coin_detail.php?coin=253754 I...
Haha. Fair enough :P
Just damage. Not a mint error. Keep looking.
Yeah I read that. 17-177 days. I'm wondering what the marker is for where the coin was minted. Usually it will say SIS or whatever. Wildwinds...
How do you know where it was minted? I can't find anything saying that anywhere.
Sweet :) The coin is much clearer in hand. I realize that in my picture it is very hard to see the ILLUS but in hand it is pretty clear. Pretty...
While my son is working on ID'ing his last two coins for his game, I've decided to try and scrub off some crusted crud from some of the coins I...
Looks like a grease filled die.
1983 - NO 1988 - NO
And the cycle continues... It's the circle of life! [ATTACH] (apologies for the awful picture)
Someone had too much time and a soldering gun. Your coin is damaged.
It's supposed to rhyme. That's the only fun part of that story.
http://now8news.com/man-tries-to-trade-kidnapped-baby-for-15-big-macs-at-arkansas-mcdonalds/
You have a die chip in the "9". Nothing exceedingly rare or valuable but kinda neat.
Reading that made me almost gag at the thought of the smell. Must have been horrid.
Haha ok I'm not THAT old ;)
Was just reading the wiki page for Vespasian. He died rather interestingly... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespasian#Death_(79)
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