Not sure what you mean by different colored dies, the dies are steel and are used to strike the coin. The different colors on the coin appear to...
It is just glue or some other foreign substance on the coin.
Did you post a photo of the wrong coin? The one pictured is clearly a 1942 that could in no way be mistaken for a 1943.
It is a 1942 d not a 1943, it is a perfectly normal cent worth two or three cents, only the 1943 was made of steel.
Yup, gotta see it. If I had to guess without seeing it, it probably had a cent pressed into it or into a foreign substance on the coin like...
I just have to go with 1793, Chain cent, Wreath Cent, Strawberry leaf, first Liberty cap and the first half cent. I can't afford them all, but I...
Uncirculated would have some value, but if it is circulated, it is worth twenty five cents.
A nice honest circulated piece, better than one of the shiny reprocessed ones!
Actually the Connecticut coppers did not really depict George III, a design mimicking the British halfpence was used because it was the most...
95 for sure.
Thanks for the intelligent reply! A post strike splitting is what I was considering, agreed there is usually a ghost image, but with the quality...
While errors are not my thing, is it possible that it is a split planchet error?
VF-30
Some may be fifty years old or so, but even at that I would say they are fantasy pieces. I remember seeing these same tokens being sold in the...
Yes, period counterfeit, hard to say on value. There are people who avidly collect them and some rarer ones go for better money, but most aren't...
Looks like it may be a counterfeit, but it is definitely not a Machins. 1775 seems to be the most common year for counterfeit British halfpence.
One diagnostic is supposed to be the cross on the shield on the reverse, on a Machins the cross is solid, on a British counterfeit they are...
Nope, not a Machins. It may be a counterfeit, but not a Machins.
Honestly, I have collected colonials for over forty years and I don't grade them. There is so much variation in planchet quality, color, strike,...
You say "they saw those coins lying around on my desk". I know there were times when my sons weren't properly taking care of some of their...
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