The photos are so out of focus, I don't think we can tell anything. You could take it to a local dealer and see what he says.
No, but dryer coins often have odd rims.
Assuming the "sticky" stuff is dioctylphthalate (DOP), how would that degrade anything?
So, what do you use to polish them?
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Maybe like that baseball coin buckled... :)
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Refresh my memory, but didn't we have a posting a few years back where someone (I think in England) found a 1793 cent in a coffee can in a garden...
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I think all of them are valuable errors.
They appear to be where someone took a semicircular punch of some kind and punched the coin. Not mint marks. On the bright side, it is 40% silver.
Thanks, Jim. @Sam Stone I was addressing one of the moderators. Sam, you should put this in the B/S/T forum and perhaps someone would want to...
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AFAIK the "proof of the pudding" for a proof coin (or at least a good start) is to look at the edge of the coin. If the edge meets the face of...
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I know this is a "world" coin, but I was somewhat taken aback at how much it looked like a US large cent. [ATTACH]
So, do you polish your coins also?
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