Explain.
Copper is a softer metal than nickel. Acids will dissolve the copper faster than the nickel. Your coin was left in an acid environment, causing...
If you have a scanner, post a scan of the note.
That thing you put at the top of the thread. You don't have to post that.
Why the poll?
Is that what they mean by 'cold cash'?
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And that could have been said in far fewer words.
Put a pat of butter on a plate. Now press the butter down. It's still the same pat of butter but it's now thinner and wider. The same thing...
It was encased. It might have then been put in a drawer to sit for many years.
Sorry, but no, it's not D over D. It's just damage. It's poor plating and zinc rot aggravated by a hit to the coin.
Halves or half dollars. Not halfes.
IMO, if they have no collector value, cash them in at a bank.
Congratulations on your find! Maybe you can get it slabbed as the discovery piece?
It's actually 'squeeze' and the past tense is 'squeezed'.
Please define.
Squoze?!
To sleep, perchance to dream.
It's a '74, so, not plated.
If you rub a potato over a good note, the pen will show counterfeit. The "ink" in those counterfeit pens is just iodine. In the presence of...
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