To be honest, I have done the same thing. I'm even guilty of hooking them up to a small transformer and burning off the junk on the coin. Burned a...
I started to bring that up. Pretty harsh cleaning.
The 1983 should weigh about 2.5 grams. Older copper cents should be about 3.1 grams.
Nice. That's the color I like to see on old copper.
It looks like a proof coin to me.
or not are
Machine doubling.
There are a few things that look odd to me. The bottom of the coat at 7. The rim at 9 and the 4 in the date.
He is above any laws. No one cares anymore.
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Not an error coin.
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I voted yes because I know people that have damaged coins, removing them from slabs. That's part of what the poll ask.
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Bowers wrote that Julius Guttag of Guttag Brothers was believed to have obtained 7500 coins at 95 cents each.
Corrosion or environmental damage? Same thing. It had a hard life.
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