Most every proof set is normal and error free. And errors can probably be found for every year as well. But the errors will be a tiny minority...
I feel your pain. Since 2016 I'm up to three 2017 dimes 2 P, 1 D, 4 2017 P cents, 1 2018 "p" and 1 D cent.
Read the thread, pay special attention to posts 3, 13, and 14.
This is also a variety of die deterioration.
And it is still good, have a stick of incense burning right now.
The lines on the coin are not die polish or flow lines. More likely planchet striations from the rolling out of the strip.
It is a error, but just a minor one. Might be worth $5 to $10 in my opinion.
It's a form of die deterioration, very commonly seen on the zinc cents but it does show up sometimes on other coins as well.
Looks like a relatively untoned 1964. I suspect after he uses it for awhile it well tone browned from the repeated skin oil and salt contact.
The XRF result posted appears to a screenshot of something D Carr posted about a copper plated steel cent on a different forum, not the OP coin....
Mikesayso Rev does look like die cracks, and I agree whatever is going on on the nose is either a die chip or die gouge. Chrissss1990 I see...
And they are now worth about $30 in constant 2007 dollars.
MAC stickers have one for Full Beak on the Washington quarters. :)
Not really. 16,000 coins? NGC get around 250,000 coins a month so you are only talking about a 7% or so increase in throughput. They have...
Sure there are, pre 1965 cents struck on dime planchets. They are lighter and part of the design will be missing because they will be smaller,...
Coke didn't return to the classic formula. I think the whole switch back and forth was deliberate. Before they brought out New Coke and dropped...
Collapsed in 2003.
Hardly a flood. With all the common date slabbed Morgans out there this 16,000 is just another drop in the bucket.
You are correct, once you paid for it and received it, it is yours (unless it turns out to be stolen). He could demand it back, but you would be...
I thought I just did that.
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