I may be wrong, but it looks to me like it may have just been smashed with a couple of other coins. The other "strikes" look incuse like from...
If it is dated 1862 it is definitely a fake. If dated 1861 it is most likely a replica, a chance it is a restrike, and an almost impossibly small...
No real way to answer this for someone else, it is an individual preference thing. You need to collect what you like. Do you like silver? or...
Sorry, just a regular Philadelphia minted dime.
Reporting to ebay seems to have been quite effective lately, especially when something is posted on here and many of us report it, the more the...
Just ten cents, normal 1974 dime.
I think I may have one of those someplace, I'll have to look. I never did figure out what it is.
I'd say about F15, but looks like it has some scuffs on the obverse from a cleaning or rubbing.
Those are pretty nasty scratches, definitely would severely impact the value. Not really whizzed or steel wool, looks like somebody scraped at it...
Somebody had a number 5 stamp and too much time on their hands!
First, welcome to the forum! Next, you will need to post pictures, impossible to say anything without seeing it.
It has been damaged somehow. For some reason coins are a common target for mutilation!
Yup, I remember buying them in souvenir shops when I was a kid.
Yeah, it is just beat up.
Nickels when exposed to the elements often tone a copper color. I have found many of them metal detecting that show this coloration.
You'll need to post some pics to say, but any of these coins are extremely rare while copies are very common.
Most likely plated with some other metal.
I believe there are somewhere around 11 varieties from five obverse and four reverse dies.
No mint mark means it came from the Philadelphia mint. Philadelphia did not start putting a mint mark on dimes until the 1980's. The no S coins...
Most colonial collectors don't like their coins slabbed, probably one reason they comprise such a small percentage of submissions. There may not...
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