It was probably a lucky penny similar to the one belowl. [ATTACH]
Personally I would be more suspicious of the 1916-D than any of the other dates.
For grading I would recommend 5X to 7X. For variety attribution and errors 10X is good. Hastings triplet design is best but I don't know if that...
The hole may have been made by driving a nail through the coin. It used be common practice to nail a coin above a door opening for good luck. You...
I would leave well enough alone. The coin may very well look much, much worse after being dipped.
I would call it a die chip. Interesting but normally no added value.
No date. No country of origin. No denomination. All those are needed to be a modern coin. I would say it is a token of some kind.
OK. I see what you mean now. I don't know the answer to your question. Perhaps you should contact the ANA and ask them. Also, David Sklow is an...
Why do you think the token would have anything to do with the ANA? It looks like an ordinary token promoting San Diego to me.
Not exactly. A First Strike is the first coin struck by a new pair of dies. If 100 pairs of dies were used to strike the coins in a particular...
I was so thankful the other thread was finally closed.......now someone has decided to awaken the sleeping dog......why must we suffer so? [ATTACH]
Conder, Thanks for reminding me of that possibility. Don't know why I didn't think of it. But now the Mint uses a computer-aided machine to cut...
What a coincidence! I had never heard of Ron White before a few days ago when I picked up that CD from my library. I am listening to the CD in my...
The reason I asked is before hubbing the face of a die is not flat - it is conical.
Matt, When are the lathe lines added to the die? Before hubbing or after hubbing?
Do you own a rock tumber? What about an eraser?
I am at 63. With those BIG marks on the cheek there is no way I could give it a 64.
Cool. I predict this will be a popular forum.
Ooops! Sorry 'bout that. Mods feel free to delete this thread.
A Penny for Mars: US Coin Riding NASA Rover to Red Planet 08 February 2012 A penny in today's economy does not go very far, but that has not...
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