The photos are too blurry to tell for sure but the coin is either in a bezel or it is a clothes dryer coin. (Search the threads here for an...
A Lincoln Cent from the 1990s should be a zinc cent, right? 1982 was the last year for bronze cents made for circulation.
Strike doubling.
Detecto, I agree the counterfeiter probably struck or pressed a genuine coin (or coins - see below) into the soft lead to produce the die that you...
Coins are not "date stamped". The date is part of the die that strikes the coin. As BU pointed out, your coin appears to have been struck with a...
That's how dies work. What is incuse on a die is raised on the coin. On a Morgan Dollar the lettering, the numerals in the date, Liberty, and the...
There's a sucker born every minute.
qsilver, Next time you might want to ask your questions before you buy more coins.
Looks like he found a set of counterfeit dies that were used to make contemporary counterfeit cast coins. That's a pretty cool find (although I...
There is more than one way the edges of these coins can come into contact with enough force to transfer some of the edge design. I was referring...
He he he! :yes:
Is baiting such as this against forum rules, especially if it is an ongoing occurrance?
Wpns, The explanation that I have heard is when the coins are jostled and strike each other edge-to-edge some of the edge designs are transferred...
I had not even thought about a Grant With Star or Grant No Star Presidential Dollar. To answer your question, minor edge anomalies like this...
19Lyds may not be the only one here with an imaginary friend.
GMTA, eh Mark?
What you are looking at is the remaining luster in protected areas (e.g., along Lincoln and along the rim). The luster in the other less-protected...
Perhaps your coin was once in a coin folder. The reverse would have been protected but the obverse could have been touched when it was pressed...
That's a very good way to ruin a coin.
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