Odd, it is obviously an incomplete planchet, and assuch I would expect the security edge to be missing on part of the coin. What is odd is that...
Often it is not really deliberate. When most people talk about acid they think of so fast acting corrosive solution. In fact in nature most all...
You are correct the die has chipped filling in the P. Yes this is a fairly common occurrence. It has no real premium value. If you watch your...
I'm surprised that no one pointed out the double clash before Mike did. When the dies clash they my not transfer an image to either die, to...
That's how a retained cud works. The pieces that have broken off the die have not fallen away, they have just shifted downward so that they are...
Are you only checking the 98, 99, and 2000 for the wide AM? I know those are the only years for which the have been reported, but in theory they...
The manganese just didn't alloy well with the silver It's also responsible for the "greasy" appearance of the worn pieces.
Post mint and a long time ago. It did a lot of circulating after it was damaged which smoothed and rounded the edges of the damage.
From the first pics I would have said that it was A doubled die, but I can't say that it is the one in CP because I don't have a CP and CP doesn't...
What's to "have at"? Sounds like you've got the negatives pretty well covered. You say you don't really get any enjoyment out of them they are...
I used to work in a resturant that had two dining rooms, one for familys andone where the young people hung out. Every time they bought something...
Except the mints allowed tolerance for the zinc cent is +/- .1 grams. So a normal cent can weigh anywhere between 2.4 and 2.6 grams I worked out...
These three web pages should explain the numbering system for the numbers to the left of the decimal point....
Yes, the police were called because the "informed" counterperson knew they must be counterfeit, and how did they know? Because the Madison dollar...
Of the five I like Alaska the best. They had some other nice possibilities as well. One of the few states that had more than one good choice to...
The nickel five cent piece was never called a half dime. The silver five cent piece was called a half dime and the nickel one ws called a nickel....
I've said it before. Someone finds a slab from one of the top tier services with some kind of error on it and it is pointed out as a "rare" error...
And only if they were struck AFTER 1967. All the D and S coppernickel nickels before 1965 had the mintmark to the right hand side of Monticello.
Weight wou't tell you a thing. From what I see it could either be the real thing, or a zinc plated copper plated zinc cent. I think on thing the...
Although they were dated 1794 all of the 94 half dimes were minted in 1795. And the mintage figures were kept by the number of coins turned over...
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