That is what looks odd to me. The planchet should have had a protorim but your coin has a bevel where the protorim should be. The reverse area...
The reverse area corresponding to the cud looks strange. Can you please post a good photo of the edge in the area of the obverse cud?
Coins are struck by dies. A planchet (a coin blank with raised rims) is placed in a coin press. A collar surrounds the planchet. The obverse and...
I knew you could make origami from currency but I never heard of making origami from a coin. [ATTACH]
Help us out. Where do you see doubling?
Stained.
Someone beat the heck out of that Ike. It is a damaged coin and worth $1.
1) Sometimes you have to wait more than EIGHT MINUTES for an answer. Some people are working during the middle of a week day. 2) You don't need...
Are you in a hurry for an answer? Can I get back to you later?
Have you weighed it?
I am reading at normal speed.
What is a "pern"?
I think you are correct. I mistook it for a die crack. I'll blame that on the bad photos.
The dies clashed (came together without a planchet between them). As B4C noted, it is interesting but not especially valuable. In my opinion it is...
That reverse die crack (from the buffalo's hump to the "F" in "OF") should make it easy to narrow down.
I don't know if this article has hit the newswires yet or not. The article appeared yesterday in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The link points...
I thought the same thing and then I remembered that it is a scripted TV show. When I was in high school one of my classmates' father had a junk...
Those were my thoughts exactly. I visited the shop about three years ago when I was in Vegas and my first thought was how small the shop was...
That is because it has not been ground. Instead it was struck through grease which means the copper plating remained intact.
Your cent is composed of a zinc core plated with a very thin layer of copper. A grinder would easily and quickly expose the zinc core.
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