It's definitely not a major variety, it's a thing called marketing.
Notes with SPECIMEN on them are used for training people that handle money. They are also sent to banks to note and train people on a new bill.
Do you have pictures of both that you could post?
It's ED or environmental damage.
It's been added after it left the mint so not a mint error. Too many things it could be so I'll not speculate on that. It's damaged and that's...
Nice move! I would have done the same thing. And kids do get into dads coin collection for candy money.
Environmental damage
Yup to gold plated.
This coin has been counterfeited. The dies are not USMint dies. One other comment is the coin, same date, is becoming more popular as time goes...
The color is fantastic! But I'm afraid that coin was soaked in urine. Those colors are the defining tell.
It's a lamination error. That did not take place in the minting process. It was already on the blank planchet. Yes, a lamination error can occur...
Please do not take offense to this but to me, most of them are damaged. They are all put together and designed by a very smart person for the sole...
Some people collect them and others don't. Some people like them and others don't. It's all a matter of preference.
Mostly from a tired, worn out, over used Die. Very common.
While counterstamped coins are damage to a coin, there is also a market for collectors of these items. I have a number of them with my collection.
Lol but remember it's better to be ripped a new one and get the truth than lied to. It's a hard lesson but one can learn from those lessons. :)
Buy the best coin you can at the lowest price you can.
I'd give them to my son to add to his collection but not to give to his friends. I would be more likely to mark them reprocessed and add them to...
That's normal
Looks like the edge of a Reeded coin hit that coin hard.
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