The "silver" is paint.
You should stop by on your way south Green. I'll take you up for a spin in the Cessna. :D I was actually just looking at the schedule for this...
Thanks Mike!
Thanks Mike. I have a question regarding the nickel that is shown as the first image in that article and is listed as a hard planchet. It...
There isn't a single thing that can be named here that people collect that someone will not find ridiculous. I learned a long time ago not to...
That's what I was thinking too. It looks just like all the legit broken planchets I've seen. Of course Mike D might come along and blow us out...
Wittgenstein said, "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." A lot of you here should heed that advice. These coins are not only...
Nice. Broken planchet after the strike.
It's plating blisters. Very common on copper plated, zinc cents.
Wait. I live in Atlanta. Didn't even know about it, so I'll be there!
It's acceptable to me. I've never met a coin that I couldn't live without for a couple of weeks.
Ebay sellers aren't Amazon. If a seller makes it to the post office within one week, we're all good as far as I'm concerned.
No. There are small and large dates from both mints. The Denver mint produced about equal numbers of both, but the Philadelphia mint produced a...
It you want to know what one looks like in hand, they are easy to find or pick up for 1960-D. Both small dates from Denver and Philadelphia look...
What you have there is a large date.
A sign of MD *can* be if the mint mark is showing the same MD if it was a pre-1990 cent. This is because the mint marks were punched into the...
If you're just looking for an example of a graded coin you can often pick up slabs on Ebay for under $10 which is less than the price of having it...
LMB could also be his initials. Just sayin'.
It's not a doubled die. It's a combination of MD and deterioration.
Amazing bias against woodies. That coin is a (at least)66 period.
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