A photo would help but based on your description someone counterstamped your coin for some reason. If you had a punch and a hammer you could...
You're just jeolous. :yes:
Don't I get any credit? I beat you both by 11 hours!! :hail:
That would be where the knockout was not fully punched out of the panel. When you knock it out of the panel that is the last place it was attached...
The magnet test is always a good first step.
There are several things that bother me about that coin. The mintmark looks too good. (The rule-of-thumb for 1932 Washington Quarter mintmarks is...
It's hard to tell anything from those photos but it looks a lot like a knockout from an electrical panel. Does it stick to a magnet?
That was part of the problem. Your question was too general. It would help us if you could phrase your questions something like, "The 'I' in...
Sorry I missed your humor. I like contemporary counterfeits, too. I have a very nice electrotype Half Cent that is one of my favorite fakes.
You also included a photo of the reverse. Do you think it is also a DDR? Looking at your photos it would appear you have a DDO. FS-25-1967-101...
The coin is genuine but the photo is juiced (as are most - if not all - of their photos).
You guys are missing some important facts. 1) This electrotype was made well before the Hobby Protection Act of 1973 and therefore does not have...
An electrotype is a copy of a coin made by electroplating the obverse and reverse of a genuine coin to create a thin shell of each face and part...
ANA offers a course a course on Hobo Nickel Carving at Summer Seminar....
Profitable or affordable? Those are two entirely different words. profitable - possessing the potential to turn a profit affordable -...
Are you asking how to attribute Overton varieties? The Overton book is fairly clear on how to do this. Like Green (and others) said, it takes...
There is a learning curve to using the Overton book. Be patient. Read the material. Reread the material. Look at several examples and try to...
Looks like the real deal. Congrats! (Your third one this year??!! Amazing.)
I don't have a partial collar Ike but I did purchase similar partial collar Morgan Dollar last week at the ANA show. (My Morgan does not have the...
Other than some bleeding of the ink the note looks normal to me.
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