Fake. The hair should not be touching the date, among other things. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
That is very similar to the Stack's buying price guide that my grandmother gave me back in 1966. Yes, there were very few grades, and the coin...
High school kids in chemistry class love to experiment with plating coins.
One of the more popular products is E-Z-Est Coin Cleaner (formerly Jeweluster).
So didn't the coin shop guy give you an estimate of its value when you had it weighed? It seems to me that any coin dealer worth his or her salt...
You need to weigh your quarter to make sure it's the right weight. A silver quarter should weigh 6.25 grams, while a clad quarter only weighs 5.67...
You're not too far off the mark :) Umaibou is a cylindrical snack that is hollow in the middle. I think it might be a kind of puffed corn, but I...
Here's a 1921-S that has been in a 20th Century Type Coins case for 20+ years: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Brasso is an abrasive that can harm a coin. Coins cleaned with Brasso might look shiny for a while, but they will discolor later. And an expert or...
Those are everyday coins here in Japan. The value is equivalent to about 10 cents, and for that money you can sometimes buy a type of kid's snack...
You probably didn't do it any favors. Coca-Cola is acid which can damage a coin. Fortunately, your coin is very common so you're not going to lose...
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Cleaning coins is not a good idea, especially for the novice, since that can ruin the value and collector appeal of a coin.
My first guess would be that someone in machine shop had a little fun playing around with a penny.
Also be on the lookout for 1995 Double Die Lincoln cents, and other penny varieties that you can read about here:...
There are many ways to "clean" a coin. Sometimes just rubbing a coin with a cloth will leave "hairlines" in the coin and give it a "cleaned"...
It looks to me like some of the coins are cleaned, like the '78 and '80-S. One of the '89's and one of the '91's are damaged, and that '91 also...
The dots between numbers/characters are also misaligned and irregularly spaced, and the 八 (8) is also wrong.
Well, that is a problem :)
Two-dollar bills got a bum rap in the US because of superstition. At race tracks, $2 was usually the minimum bet (paid with a $2 bill, perhaps),...
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