If it is a business strike quality piece then yes it is silver. If it is a proof then it may or may not be. A tissue test would tell the difference.
In the pictures of the three 5's the middle one is not a small 5 that is the medium 5. There are four varieties of 1805 but only three obv dies....
Good no competition from jloring, now just have to get rid of a lot more people with more money than I have. :)
Since the 2012 had a low mintage if the price has jumped up on them I would expect a lot of people will jump on the 2013's hoping it will happen...
Looking at the S mint mintage figures for quarters give a clue. in 99 they made 700K then in 1900 1.8M. This apparently supplied the area with...
Would take a lot of damage to make a cent look like a dime. :) All I see are several hits on the coin. On the 9, between the E and D, on the O...
This is the large 5 w stems C-4. And there is no small 5 stemless. The stemless 1805 is a medium 5 not the small 5.
The ziplock bag is actually softer than the paper and it is more inert.
Frankly I'd probably drop it in my pocket withthe rest of my change for a year or two.
This seems to be the only forum where he has posted this where he has gotten a positive reception.
I see what appears to be a die gouge, a die crack, nothing, and another die crack. None of these are really errors.
Collar clash. At some point the obv die was misaligned far enough that the portion of the die that creates the top surface of rim made contact...
O-111 is what I come up with as well.
There are 9 specimens listed in the early date census (Not the condition census) only three are better than this coin. In the Condition Census...
I don't know which variety it is but it is a RPD.
This is a 1795 C-1 struck in 1795. At that time the mint was preparing their own planchets from whatever copper they could lay their hands on....
As marshall says start with the circular curl left of the date. That's S-67 thru 71. Triplet leaf cluster below O in OF makes it NC-3 or S-72....
The picture is too small to see any evidence of a DDO. Even blowing it up doesn't help.
Actually there are at least 34 other examples. But only in four cases can the branch mint no mintmark coin be told apart from the Philadelphia...
Well I'll chime in but they have already covered it fairly well. Copper Quotes Penny Prices, experience and knowing what the rarity ratings are...
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