Looks like die chips.
It's also basically what I said as well, so that's three of us.
I looked at the actual selling prices on eBay. I will admit I looked at the low mintage 95's and not the 96's but it was possible to get MS-69's...
Would you love it any less if it didn't grade? If so then don't send it in and stay in love.
The Cuban countermark is completely different.
If the planchet was not sufficiently annealed the hardness of the metal would also cause a poorer than average strike. I do like the triple clash...
Well it's close to being perfectly round. The real ones were cut from hammered silver sheets by hand with shears leaving them very uneven. And...
OK so if you are just issuing new coins that have 10 times the purchasing power, you can still eliminate the windfall to coin hoarders by changing...
I don't not normally do this but +1
No it isn't. The CACC has voiced the opinion that the reverse should be changed, and they have selected the design they would like to see it...
And the simple was to do that is the NEW cent, nickel, dime etc have the purchasing power of 10 times the old coins (same for paper money). The...
Plating with a single metal is pretty straight forward. Trying to plate an alloy is a lot tougher. You can have troubles keeping the proper...
Uh, Canada uses cents too, not pennies.
I don't know if Matt is married, I also don't know what the waitress looked like, hence the question. :)
Only if you can find someone who collects them by die variety.
It looks like part of the buffalos tail is actually off the coin so I will agree, off-center. Took me awhile to decide if it was off-center or an...
There appears to be a incuse E CE in the top of Lincolns head which would seem to indicate the reverse of another coin was pressed into this one....
Only as a representative specimen of die deterioration for educational/comparitive purposes. It has no monetary premium. I do recommend that...
I think rascal got it, split plating at the top of the letters and the zinc is rotting away.
Yep, sorry but it appears to be a poor quality cast copy.
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