Could you post pictures of the reverse?
It appears to be a lamination. This is caused when impurities get under the planchet an seperate a section of it.
I wish! Yeah, NOS is right, but both of the unc wheats were 1958.
I am planning on keeping them for a long time, maybe 30 or so years. Right now, though, they can't be sold easily for melt.
[ATTACH] Purchased for $2.50 from a junk bin.
This is purely speculation from someone who doesn't use ebay (yet), but maybe because they are spending a lot of time watching/paying for other...
...if you inspect your coins under an electron microscope for hairline scratches.
...if you're doing a math problem in class that is about the probability of heads and tails, you accidentally say obverse and reverse.
..if you're always out of flips when you need them.
Also, anyone pulling out the copper? I have aquired 3 boxes total so far.
Nice! I have only found 2 unc. wheats before, and my oldest is 1910.
For me it's the opposite, I have a hard time finding Ps.
What's opposite of the second strike?
Do you know what they are going to be made of?
Try toying around with the lighting to get better results. I have had to change the lighting many times to capture certain "qualities".
Interesting. I wonder if that has to do with the presses they used then and there.
You mean you learned it from "one of the cent guys"? That was probably me, I have explained it on other threads.
[ATTACH][ATTACH] Is this the halo effect?
That looks more like normal die wear.
I would guess so. If that nickel has it, most likely.
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