45mm yes but I wrote mine before I read the size.
The way the letters look in TRADE DOLLAR is a hint. Missed it by 2 seconds. I will get you Muzyck. Curses, foiled again!
It could be a clip. Photo of entire obverse, and the missing rim section from the side /edge on.
Anything can happen to a coin after it leaves the mint. Either accidentally or on purpose. (PMD)
It could have some nice toning. Let's see it.
It's unlikely to be a silver planchet, but there's no way to be 100%, unless you analyze the metal content. If it were on a silver planchet that...
Let's say you have a tub of 100,000 copper cents, $1000 face value. If you were allowed to melt it, you would realize $500. Not including time,...
This coin is worn. That's one reason. Mechanical doubling, ejection double, machine doubling (I think are all the same thing) is another...
https://www.pcgs.com/news/the-mystery-of-the-1959-d-mule-lincoln-cent
These minor hits on worthless modern coins are nothing. Maybe the edge of a dime got pressed in there somehow. It didn't come from the mint like...
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Large date. The small date is rare and: The curl of the 9 needs to go around further. The point of the bottom of the 9 should be sharp not blunt...
Denticles are the little teeth like ridges all the way around the rim.
If the MM's are put into the dies, how did this error happen? They started punching out proofs before they put the S on?
If this was an error there would be a million people taking a hammer and a nail to the sun in their Walking Liberty Halves. You could look at...
True errors are quite rare compared to the millions and billions and trillions of coins that are not errors.
Why is the nickel a 64-D and the cent from Philly? Is this is just some set that someone put together from circulation?
Yes 42 they made both. No 1942 D silver and no 1942 S nickel. 1942 plain nickel, 1942-D nickel, 1942-P silver, 1942-S silver. And while this has...
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