If salt is is completely dissolved in water, it is no longer abrasive since there are only sodium and chlorine ions in the solution. These ions...
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A coin that is cleaned will have a lower value than an uncleaned one. Cleaning so it's not noticeable is an art very few have perfected. Best not...
It's hard to imagine the internal marketing dept sitting around packaging all of the dollars and especially cents. General Mills does lots of...
XRF can give you non destructive compositional information of the surface up to approx 100 microns deep
He was the person who discovered that variety
Think this through a minute. How is a coin going to have fully struck design but also raised areas after being struck with tons of force? It's...
Definitely not a capped die. An acetone soak should remove the adhered substance, if not xylene will. The dark areas are stains and environmental...
It looks like a random mark or stain. It needs to look exactly like MMS-006 which was used from 1953-62 [ATTACH]
The coin in the OP isn't a railroad rim. A railroad rim is also known as a partial collar. Here is the write up from error-ref. The edge pics...
If you you don't want to call it laziness, then call it "poor research techniques", or "failure to perform due diligence", or "pencil whipping"....
@JCro57 Mint Error News published a write up and comprehensive PDF with dates, weights, comps, mints, diameters and other data. The latest date...
While you may think this is only about you, other new collectors also read these threads and could find that info useful, even if you don't....
Lamination error on the reverse. This is an example of a planchet defect
Regarding error coins, there are almost infinite ways for a coin to be damaged or have some type of process variability. Many times, it is nearly...
@Dustin mize It IS NOT a repunched mm. A coin can only be an error/variety if you CAN explain how it occurred during the minting or die...
You're correct, environmental damage. But still a cool roll find
Sorry, Environmental Damage
@Ball722 Easy way to tell its PMD The coin press uses a collar to maintain the diameter as the coin is struck. Notice how the rim is distorted...
Damaged. Why? Who knows? Why would the mint remove a die from service, cancel it, then strike more coins? Finding them in mixed rolls should...
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