Sorry for posting about cleaning coins on this thread. It has confused the OP's original request. My apologies.
OK, I know I am in for a verbal assault, but if you are not collecting coins for profit of any kind (even down the road, or even to get your...
In addition to all the great suggestions stated above, I encourage you to find a local coin club to join. Each member will be only too glad to...
That made me think of the Andy Griffith talk on football. Sorry I don't have a copy of that.
looks like the dark spot on CENT is a tiny lamination.
Were they still using actual coins in 1976? I know they were in 1970 when I worked just outside Vegas. Oh! I could have had soooo many silver...
I wonder how a lot of the MAJOR errors get out of the mint!!
Since Ike dollars do not circulate much, it is hard for me to believe this is a worn coin. So I was wondering if this is just a weak strike....
Can a coin be considered well struck if it has clash marks? Doesn't that diminish the strike?
Is it possible that this nickel was struck on a solid planchet that the mint was using for a foreign government contract?
Is machine doubling and what I have heard referred to as ejection doubling the same thing?
My local coin dealer gave me this cent because he knows I collect error coins and he is a great dealer (Doelgers Galley of Coins in Warren, NJ)....
Found this nickel in change. I think the mint left this die pair in service a little too long. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Did you check the thickness? It might be a tapered planchet.
I belong to the Watchung Hills Coin Club in NJ and one of our members collects silver bars. But not for the silver value for the rarity value....
Fred, if this is your picture I hope you don't mind me using it as my avatar.
It's hard to tell from a straight on shot, but it appears that there is an indentation in the coin where the letters should be. My guess is that...
I believe the EPQ stands for Exceptional Paper Quality.
Here is a 1908 British half penny with an REO motor company lapel pin mounted in the middle of it. I am guessing that it was made as a souvenir...
Signers of the declaration of independence[ATTACH]
Separate names with a comma.
