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OK, here we go. 1936 or USA, to the next player. This humble Merc dime from 1936 came into my possession on Thanksgiving Day, 1976, when I found...
@Stork- I've always loved those- great Art Deco design. If memory serves, I think you sent me a circulated example of one of those, once?...
This. Sound advice. The part about "handling by the edges only" is always good practice, but vital on proof coins, due to the "skin oils" issue...
Happy to do it, though @Aethelred shortened my research path considerably by narrowing it down to one location to start the search from. I'd have...
I'm a sucker for pictorial love tokens. Even though this one is on a common-date Seated dime and it's not that intricate, I liked it. I suppose...
Woo. Yeah. I've never owned a Laffy buck in 40 years of collecting. WTG.
This.
What did you want to know?
My large-flan EID MAR is not only rare... it's unique. [IMG] According to me. :D (Seriously, tho', I like @Eduard 's Vespasian sestertius, too.)
@Julius Germanicus - I'm glad you got your money back! That coin worried me very much, even before its identical dopplegangers started turning...
Yeah, those Belgian coins are "the forgotten steel cents". Made by our own US mint, on the same blanks. Part of WW2 history, around the time of...
Be very careful dipping proof coins, or handling them at all. While that one could benefit from a quick dip and thorough rinse to remove some of...
A Belgian 1944 2-franc piece would be a cool addition to a small subset of steel cents, since the US Mint struck those for Allied-occupied Belgium...
Wheel mark/details grade or not, that's supercool.
It does look like a repunched mintmark. Such things are not my forte- I'm not an error/variety guy, really- but I can see why you'd think there...
Hi, Kevin. First of all, "Gem" describes a choice Mint State coin in about MS65 grade range. Your coin is not Mint State at all- not even close-...
As @paddyman98 mentioned, nickels do not have clad layers. Modern (post-1965) clad coins (dimes, quarters, halves and dollars) have layers of...
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