Oh yeah and I still do it. If I can't make a million bucks for spilling hot McDonald coffee in my lap I'll wait until I get arrested for passing...
I always open these types of rolls. Nothing to lose really and you might find something special. I have found several die cracks and die chips...
Try paying the kids at cash registers today ( I have ) and they think it's play or fake money. "Excuse me while I ask the manager about this".
Did you watch the movie on Snowden? I did. It was quite enlightening.
Possibly displaced metal that got smooshed from the damage above "States".
@Wadesterling101 A cud on a coin is a damaged area resembling a blob on the surface of a coin. The cud is raised above the field, and it...
@Wadesterling101 Definition: When a thick flake spalls off the interior of the die face it leaves a void we call an interior die break. It...
Very comfortably with a fake Posture Pedic mattress. ;)
@Insider did a piece on these being found as fake in a recent Numismatic News. I'm hoping he will be able to do a spot here also.
Someone finally found my toilet test subject! That's my "T" identifying mark in the right obverse field.:woot::confused:;)
Perhaps the Mint go backwards in time and examine some of the iconic designs that only made it to the pattern stage. There's plenty to choose from.
You might not be done with them as soon as you think. The American Coinage Redesign Act passed during the last administration could make possible...
Very nice but please tell me that's not a hit to the right wing of the eagle at the top.
At the very least the design does not over power the coin as a whole. I am left wondering why the .999 was not included in the fineness of the silver.
Capitol seems a tad higher in Type 2, meeting the middle of the 4th ray instead of just touching the bottom of the ray.
With all those horizontal lines, it looks to have been scraped off.
Send it in to a TPG. They will slab anything these days. Then it goes up on Etsy for $50K. :yack:;)
Die Rings? Maybe that's what's going around Saturn. You go through those rings, you die. :rolleyes::D:confused:
I was thinking this might be a fake Peace Dollar that has a copper core with a silver plating.
Covina Coin & Jewelry often posts full page ads like this. They are in California.
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