Hope all this helps you to understand. Over time copper reacts with oxygen and sulfur. So a copper penny pre-1982 often turns red, violet, and...
A 10x is all the magnifications you need. The more you magnify a coin the more you’ll find wrong with it.
Unfortunately no as my ex wife sold my entire collection.
If you mean the C in CENT, that’s not a die chip. The C was hit and that soft copper moved.
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If you look at the bottom of the U you can see a small scrape. Copper is soft and it doesn’t take much of a hit to move it.
The L on the rim is caused by the wear on the die. Fairly common and it’s worth one cent.
It looks flat and shelf like so that’s MD. The real error is the writing is upside down. :smuggrin:
I wouldn’t block them as it may be in honest mistake. Just make a note to remind you of them doing this. Accept an offer of $130 if you care to,...
You did good.
If you look at your last photo posted it clearly shows a wood grain like effect. The metals in that coin are improperly mixed making it look like...
They really are fascinating as you said. As soon as I get caught up on a coin bill (I’m making payments) that’s expensive I’ll be looking for more...
@paddyman98 Your opinion please. :)
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That is a nice one! :)
You and I know but there’s 3 people that don’t have a clue. :woot:
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