So I'm bored at work and going through some of my collection (I pack some in my backpack for just such occasions) to look over for anything I may...
For most of us it's more like when's the last time you saw this and the answer would likely be yesterday. Welcome to the party.
Look up "master hub doubling" on this of which I think there are 3 varieties for the '72's. Personally, I don't see any DDO on this one.
Without a mirror shot, how can we see that this is a rotated die? From your pics it looks pretty normal to me.
Nice catch!! I noticed the date right off the bat even without enlarging the pic.
I sneak them in the till at work and mix it in folks change. Less than %10 of people even look to see what they've just been handed.
+1 First unmistakable clue is the reverse lettering.
Having visited different antique and specialty shops while visiting in Canada, I know they have all kinds of random US coinage. If they have them...
Looks to me like a blob of glue for putting it in some sort of display???
Zinc at the top is small date and all the others large. Compare the 2 on them, small date has curved neck while large has a straight neck....
Didn't say you did it, but someone did.
Looks like a vice job using a washer to make that.
I like beer... make your own assumptions.
You forgot option #4 of do away with it altogether. There's my vote.
@Inspector43 here are the pics I posted from my roll find. I guess I didn't post the clashes, but these were still nice finds.
I went to my LCS a while back and picked up some foil wrapped rolls of 60 & 60D cents. Out of the 5 rolls, I found 25 with the exact same die...
There are still laws in the books that state if you don't have at least $5 cash on you, you can be cited with vagrancy. Now these are old laws,...
A nice looking, well circulated coin. It's just been treated better along the way or in hiding most of the time.
Went into my local bank this morning to make a deposit and get a little running around money. The cashier asked me how I wanted my cash and just...
Welcome to Shrew's Scrapyard lol:greedy:
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