It may depend on your vision. For normal vision, 10x is plenty. I still have a 16x loop I bought when I was 11 or 12, and it is still all I...
You're welcome! And nice Stuiver!
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Are you sure about that? If a professional grading service certified it as a dollar, it must be!
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For Etsy, "Missing design elements." For reality, I don't think it is a parking lot casualty because the grinding is too even. Parking lot coins...
Not really, although I do like them, and British coins as well. Not only is it identified by the harp, as noted by others, but the letters "HIB"...
Don't know much about the coin, but if I were the owner there's one dealer I would never go back to.
The majority of my coins would be considered "thrifty." Many are pieces others would consider junk, but I like the history they represent, like...
It does appear to me (not an expert) to be a George III halfpenny, made for Ireland (Hibernia). I can't make out a date, although in hand you...
It's been many years, so my memory is fuzzy on the grading, and I was new at collecting, so my grading skills would not have been great. But the...
I'm no expert here, but if it is I don't think you could ever prove it by the mintmark. Perhaps some experts out there could find enough die...
My point, exactly. But if they insist, let them cover the cost. Many merchants did this in the Civil War, creating Civil War tokens, only they...
It would be even worse, because steel is rougher on dies than zinc.
Not mine--that's on Sensible Sal's post. His is a very pronounced example.
I think of chop marks somewhat like wear. I have liked history since I was in elementary school, and both wear and chop marks show the coin has a...
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Also the neck and the face appears doubled. (MD?)
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