Thanks for the input. Not all that looks like wear looks like that in hand. Most of it looks more like damage or a poor strike to begin with....
Thanks for the effort! I think the key is the heraldry around the cross, but I don't know where or how to begin looking that up.
Thanks for the lead. Yes, the orb is similar. I believe the Z in the orb is actually a 2, which I take to have some bearing on the denomination....
I thought Spanish as well when I first bought it, and believed that for a long time. But I cannot find anything like it listed among Spanish...
Why so? I don't have any reason to doubt it as authentic, I just don't know what it is. The vendor had a box of miscellaneous coins, of which I...
I purchased this from a Paris street vendor nearly 50 years ago for about 20 cents. I still don't know what it is exactly. Can anyone help me ID...
Do let us know if it turns out to be anything other than acid. The SG would seem to rule that out.
Entry Post. This is my oldest dated coin, not counting ancients, dated 1561. I bought it from an ad in Coin World about 1963, when I was Noah's...
But the law quoted in post 31 said it was illegal to make any denomination higher than 5 cents. I can see where trying to spend it or sell it as...
Does this mean the Henning nickels are not, strictly speaking, illegal at all? Of course, today, with making a nickel costing more than 5 cents,...
I use the terms interchangeably, but if there is a difference perhaps it should be similar to the difference between history and the past. The...
The better question is, why? And how did anybody keep from losing them?
No kidding!
Not a mistake. My scale arrived today. It weighs .08 g, including the dirt that remains in the incuse.[ATTACH]
I love the folks at my relatively small town USPS. I had a similar experience a few months ago with a much less valuable coin (about $2). The...
I see that, but the orientation of the shift, if any, seems to be different from the D. It's hard to tell for sure on the photo.
Are you kidding? I'm sure it is all over U Tube by now, complete with videos of how it was found in circulation.
I'm no expert, and I'm probably wrong more times than I'm right, but in my experience when there is that much displacement with mechanical...
Sorry. SL quarter.
I am certainly no expert. But the curves on the 5 look very different from the curves on the 8 in the example shown above of 1918. In fact, the...
Separate names with a comma.
