No ammount of buffing could clean me up... :p but I gotta admit, these ancients are great fun!
@Ikw - Can you get a better/clearer image of the date? I still am leaning towards it being wear but a clearer image would help.
Seconded.
Me too! He is really good with images and finding the little details that make things stand out from each other. He is also super-interested in...
Managed to squeeze another coin in today between getting the lawn mowed, working on clearing out the basement, and my son playing his new Lego...
The top one bugs me though with all the crud between the soldiers and the standard :P
THAT is COOL!!
I've got just one that came in an uncleaned lot. It's a doe. Not very pretty haha.
These are the latest 2 to come out of the lot of uncleaned coins I bought a few weeks ago. They were severely encrusted and my nylon brush wasn't...
It's more worn than the others. Will have a different sound that them. FYI, the "ring" test is not a good indicator of whether or not a coin is...
Looks like a worn, dirty, CuNi quarter.
Well, what you have is a 41 year old, well circulated, quarter. BUT we can turn this into a learning opportunity.... A 40% silver quarter weighs...
Me ;)
25 cents. What makes you think it is silver clad?
Too bad your only options are "very nice" and "Looks nice". I want an option for "common 1977 quarter that ISN'T silver".
I found my off-centers and also a partial brockage that were larger in diameter than a normal cent all in MWR rolls. With the partial brockage,...
http://www.lincolncentresource.com/smalldates/1960smalldate.html
Looks like possibly a lamination. Hard to tell for sure with your picture. It is very bright/pixelated.
Great find for a box! After searching over $15k of cents, I have only managed to find 2 off-centers. Neither as far off as yours.
@Newbie69 Remember, the 60P small date is the one you really want to be on the lookout for. Good pics btw.
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