Doesn't look like 30 years of wear, but who's to say how long it was in someone's piggy bank. Perhaps 1890's or so. Why one would do that is...
I love coins like these, with little value but great stories. For example, the South Arabia coin is interesting, although it has little value....
If I am not mistaken, MS grades are given according to how many little nicks or other defects are visible on an otherwise uncirculated coin (and...
I'm no expert at all, but it looks like it says on the right side of the reverse, reading down, "LAODIK[EON]. (Laodicea of Phrygia) Compare to a...
Possibly part of some costume jewelry.
A friend of my parents got an 1841-O dime in change at a fast food place about 25 years ago. It would be a strong G, maybe VG, but unfortunately...
From the flattened spots on the reverse I'd say certainly someone struck it (post mint), whether with a press, pellet gun, or something else is...
I use a product called "Coin Date," made and distributed by Garry's Coin Company from Mooresville, N.C. Unfortunately, I bought my 2 ounce bottle...
OK, so it was worn dateless. Acid showed it is 1916-S. No real value, but nostalgic for me, and it's not often you find a 107 year-old coin in...
Very nice, and good advice. But I notice your coin is not slabbed. I prefer coins like that, but for someone just starting out collecting gold...
I'd grade it SOLD. Somebody got a nice coin for the money.
I, too, like the aesthetics, but history is much more important, and I believe most collectors would have to say that deep down. If it were pure...
A plating bubble, a piece of corrosion in the zinc under the copper, like the one to the right of the Memorial which has popped.
This note appears to have been issued in April of 1945, at the end of WWII, at the beginning of a period of hyperinflation. Before the war, it...
The experts above are right, as normal. All the Zincolns are bad about corrosion, damage, and plating issues, especially the early ones. As the...
I'm no expert, especially on Morgan varieties, but is there any known variety of 83CC with that dot after the E in ONE? If not, then for sure it...
There are several reasons to switch them out of the original into a different holder. First, as already mentioned, you may find a different...
No, not 001, but a very nice DDO nevertheless. Nice find!
Man, all those rare dateless buffaloes I passed on and spent in my youth! I could have been rich. At least the one in the link can, in fact, be...
They look fake to me. As mentioned, the sharpness just isn't there, although bad photos can cause that. Particularly the portraits do not look...
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