Whoop! Whoop! CircCam alert! Coingratulations, @Kasia - that is my favorite of anyone's Secret Santa gifts I've seen posted so far.
Boy, you're not kidding! :yack: Yeesh, look at how many fake 1909-S VDB cents this seller has actually sold! :banghead: I pity the poor fools...
Ooh! An 1853 A&R half! Sweet!
Honorable mention: This 1702 "Wildman" replaces another one of the same date which I purchased raw at the 2023 FUN show in January. The raw coin...
Glad you're still here with us. Hope you are comfortable and content.
Copper rounds seem to be making the rounds!
And surprisingly large. PCGS lists 1,090 different country/date/denomination combinations in their Registry set on that theme!
While putting up a gallery of known fakes here is not a bad idea, I've heard some say that it is best to post them on some of the established...
Alas, no. Not gonna make it this year. Maybe next. Maybe I'll make it to some other regional show in GA, FL, SC or NC.
Cool! Another Britannia! As @Joshua Lemons replied earlier (in response to @INDE1977's received gift)... I tend to agree!
Huh? o_O S-mints are fun to find here on the East coast, at least. But otherwise, I see nothing unusual about this coin.
Discolored. I don't see anything that looks like an error?
What are you seeing that makes you think it is an error? I see a normal cent with discoloration and environmental damage. Merry Christmas to...
No telling how much weight that coin lost due to the damage. And that's all it is: damage.
As mentioned, it's just that- dark- due to environmental toning. Get a few more to add to it (with maybe a few quarters), and you'll have enough...
Here are my favorite ten of the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern coins I purchased in 2023. (One or two might have been late-2022 purchases-...
Yep. The modern ones show the same clad “sandwich” layers on the edge.
Balboas are fun. Struck by the US mint on US blanks, so that 1/4 Balboa is a silver quarter in disguise. I like the Philippine and Cuban stuff,...
It is very nice. (Finest known in a PCGS slab, in fact.) I wish I had an 8-doubles piece that looked like that!
Welcome, Brandon! Nice find. I'm no error specialist so I will defer to the opinion of those above, but it's definitely an interesting piece....
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