With the state coinages the value is all about the rarity of the particular variety. If it was a Connecticut or New Jersey I could surely give...
No, exactly the opposite. The reverse is pushed out from the pressure on the obverse. This could not happen if the coin was in the dies, had to...
Looks to be a genuine coin but intentionally damaged somehow. A strikethrough would not show corresponding damage on the other side.
Please explain how this can happen in the minting process. If you don't like the free and correct answer here, spend your money and send it to...
While there are in depth books on many of the different series of pre Federal coins, Whitman Encyclopedia of Colonial and Early American Coins is...
There are 7 different reverse die varieties with the small closed S's and 9 with the wide open S's. Yours has the wide open S's, I don't know if I...
Have you weighed the coin? I bet it isn't the correct weight.
Well, there are actually several types of doubling. In addition to doubled die and machine doubling, there can be die deterioration doubling,...
Welcome to the club! I've always said, I could have a world class collection if I could focus on just one area. I tend to jump around as well,...
Picture is not the best, but that doesn't look like it to me.
It seems like the common date large cents are getting tough to come by at a decent price. I still need one common date for my large cent set, and...
Numismatics is a funny hobby, an amazing piece of history like that for $15, but a normal quarter with a die chip that gets a fancy name can cost...
If you don't like the free information, spend the money and send it to PCGS. The answer will be the same though.
It seems like this is more common on zinc cents than the older copper ones, I wonder why. It seems like the softer zinc would be easier on the...
The obverse die was more worn than the reverse.
The 1640 counterstamped Douzains are one of my, too many, areas of collecting interest.
Thank you, it will be worth the wait. Stay safe.
Most of the nickels in this thread are 1964 because, someone finds a copper colored 1964 nickel, they google "1964 copper nickel" and it takes...
The French Colonials are fascinating coins. Robert Vlack lists it as an R2 for rarity in his book on the billon French colonial coinage. The...
While those cents are nice for their age, and they would be good coins for a circulated cent collection, there is no way they would be worth...
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