So what is stopping you from cooking or baking?
The damage Bill was talking about was the thousands of nicks and hits on the obv and rev. THOSE would not be caused when tapping the edges of a...
I've seen some like that which were then intended to be worn in a bezel as a necklace or as part of a keychain.
That's the ticket! If a cent was placed on another coin and struck again it would be sunk DEEP into the other coin and when the cent fell out you...
The sodium hydroxide and zinc dust solution deposits a layer of zinc on the cent. The heating in the flame then causes the zinc to melt and...
How do you have papers to prove you took a coin out of an original roll? Even if you did you could have done anything to the coin between the...
As Jim says it is the heavy or filled 2. You see these being sold all the time as 1883/2 or in some cases even 1882/1 (I've even seen one...
His point is that the coinshop has to make a profit somewhere, so they buy them at 90 cents each and then dump them in the coinstar and get paid...
The cent has potentially been in the dryer longer, and coppernickel is harder and more resistant to marks than the copper cent. It will alo...
I believe the scratched Canadian pieces are actually vending machine related from a probe that checks to make sure it isn't a washer.
Slowride, your quarter and the one in the original post are from different dies. Look at the left edge of the cud. His starts to the left of the...
Ever seen baby rings? I have, and I have seen one that was made from a gold dollar. No I'm not saying that these dimes were intended to be...
Yes that is a retained cud. The die has cracked all the way across and one side has broken away from the shank of the die and shifted downward...
The half cent is an 1808 C-3
What's wrong with polypropylene?
No doubt about the 1798 being an S-166 That long arc crack to the left is diagnostic even on all but the earliest die state. (Breen lists a Die...
Is there a VDB on the shoulder? I agree it doesn't look much like a 0. If it doesn't have the VDB then it could be an 09, because the third...
The face values are irrelevant too.
Simply because there aren't that many people interested in collecting them. Look at the last three. They go on sale and immediately sell six to...
I think the individual President proof coins were on the mints discontinue list.
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