I believe you are seeing the designers initials. GR for Gilroy Roberts.
Normal close AM cent.
Really just looks like the A got dinged to me.
I am certainly no expert but I don't like the looks of it at all. Kind of rough surfaces and small bumps, the strike is very odd for a flying...
I am a big fan of the Rosa coins, it appears to be a penny I believe? Syd Martin wrote a book on them, great for attribution but yours might be a...
He had several threads on this same coin, and I and several others did point it out but he refused to answer how this could come about.
If it is steel, then it can't be struck over a Buffalo nickel because there were no steel planchets until 1943.
What are you seeing that makes you feel they are worth the money?
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