That's from countless boxes and bags of searching. Somewhere in the range of $15,000 worth of cents searched :P
Congrats. :) I am sitting on my 47th 1998 WAM. I thought I was going to make it to 50 this year but I haven't seen one in months.
You need much clearer pictures before anyone will be able to tell you anything.
Most likely fakes. I went to Korea over the summer and coins like this were all over in the coin shops. Boxes and boxes of them. Clearly fakes.
Looks like a die crack to me.
You are lucky. My local coin dealer is a rip-off. They have a pretty big website dealing mostly with bullion and their prices are pretty high....
Search as much as I can before I have to move to Korea for a year. :(
Here is one that has 2 different ships on it :) [ATTACH]
Picked up 2 boxes of halves from my new supply bank. They were both skunks minus a few NFIC. Just glad to get boxes again after months of nothing.
Here is one of my favorite errors I have found CRH'ing. 1982D LMC Lamination. Best part was that the peel was still attached. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I see tons of scratches on both the obverse and reverse that could have possibly come from someone grinding it.
Looks flat and shelf-like to me.
You just answered your own question...
I spoke with a manager at another branch of my CU today. They were more than happy to order boxes for me after my other branch cut me off. I was...
1. No. It looks worn down PMD. 2. Looks like a small clip to me. 3. Probably dryer coins.
The doubling isn't there. Plain and simple.
Not sure what that has to do with your coin...
Nope. Not it.
Picked up $25 cents, $100 dimes, and $100 quarters yesterday: Cents gave up 10 wheaties (40s and 50s) and 3 canadians (oldest 1955) Dimes gave...
I'm not seeing any splitting. Looks more flat and shelf-like to me.
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