It's a post mint unplating job. Or a genuine non-plated one that has been corroded so that it can no longer be recognized as a genuine non-plated...
The counterfeit slabs tend to have fake coins that match the label and the serial numbers are from genuine slabs whose information matches the...
First I've heard of that.
That doesn't mean anything. Most of the fake slabs have had serial numbers that verify.
You and I must go to different shows. At the ones I attend it's the other way round, 10% of the dealers use the 1 1/2 X 1 1/2 holders.
Sorry I thought this was the part you were referring to And in that he is right. The damage in the fields of the obv and rev of the coin in the...
Now that is one sorry pair of worn out dies. Not an error just a case of die deterioration doubling on both sides of the coin. Dies ar worn out...
And another three and a half year old thread is resurrected.
Well you do kind of have to use the insert, or else you have a coin in a flip with no identification. If you really want to put them in the vinyl...
Amen to all of that. Uh Bill, even though I was banned from PCGS you're not talking about me right? :D
So what is stopping you from cooking or baking?
The damage Bill was talking about was the thousands of nicks and hits on the obv and rev. THOSE would not be caused when tapping the edges of a...
I've seen some like that which were then intended to be worn in a bezel as a necklace or as part of a keychain.
That's the ticket! If a cent was placed on another coin and struck again it would be sunk DEEP into the other coin and when the cent fell out you...
The sodium hydroxide and zinc dust solution deposits a layer of zinc on the cent. The heating in the flame then causes the zinc to melt and...
How do you have papers to prove you took a coin out of an original roll? Even if you did you could have done anything to the coin between the...
As Jim says it is the heavy or filled 2. You see these being sold all the time as 1883/2 or in some cases even 1882/1 (I've even seen one...
His point is that the coinshop has to make a profit somewhere, so they buy them at 90 cents each and then dump them in the coinstar and get paid...
The cent has potentially been in the dryer longer, and coppernickel is harder and more resistant to marks than the copper cent. It will alo...
I believe the scratched Canadian pieces are actually vending machine related from a probe that checks to make sure it isn't a washer.
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