Great attitude! Collecting should be about learning and enjoyment, too many only focus on the dollar value. Thank you!
Looks like old damage smoothed out with wear. Maybe a small lamination?
More questions than answers, what is the weight? Can you post a picture of the obverse? How was the composition tested? With more info someone...
I used to take my sons to Chuck E. Cheese when they were younger, I would go through the tokens to see how many different dates I could find....
All fake. Like when Rick calls his buddy Dana to stop by and authenticate a piece of early American paper. Dana Linett drops everything and...
none of the NJ's in this thread are camel heads. The camel heads are 56-n, 57-n and 58-n.
It is worth less in the second picture than it was in the first. That poor thing has suffered some damage between the first and second pictures.
Somebody had an S stamp and too much time on their hands. No possible way it could have come from the mint like that.
What you are seeing as Confederate flags is simply the decorative railing. All nickels have this, but some may be more visible due to better...
Look like normal cents, what is it you see that makes you think otherwise?
A quick google search turned up a bunch of them, they mostly seem to be advertised for $10 or less.
There are two on ebay right now, one with a starting bid of 29.95 and one with a starting bid of 48.00 neither has any bids yet and both auctions...
Looks like a normal quarter to me. As stated post better pictures and also explain what you are seeing.
Surfaces look a little funky, maybe some environmental issues and cleaning. Definitely some wear as well. I honestly have gotten nicer ones for...
Reprocessed steel cent. No real collector value because of the reprocessing.
Bent and mangled, somebody had something against that poor nickel! However it happened it is just damaged.
Oh boy I give up. One last thing, Boss, you just aren't getting it. Do some studying, check the links that Paddyman posted. I have been...
At least we agreed!
Wrong, a doubled die is not a coin that is struck twice. It is struck from a die that has a doubled image from when the die is made. The error...
The fact that you can't find another like it also points to strike doubling. Strike doubling may happen to only one single coin, whereas a...
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