Good Question & excellent thread!
Great photography!
Sure looks as if someone rubbed something on that coin...they left brush marks!
My hat's off to anyone smart enough to spell "proselytizing." Let's get back to Post Mint Damage.
I learned somewhere that all 1944 pennies (maybe '45's, too) were were struck from brass, which was plentiful at that time; a result of...
Being of no discernible faith carried no water where I grew up. People of that ilk were routinely found out and then dragged to the town square,...
I entitled My tome If you demonstrate no discernible sense of humor, you place yourself squarely in the path of swift and well-earned...
"ANYBOIDY"; my formal education commenced well prior to yours, and included semi-literate-but-fully=accredited, boy-hating, black-clad,...
Not too bad. If this coin was dug, it possibly was part of a "pocket drop", where coins lay in the ground, in a stack, so that one side may be...
Yes! So cool, to learn about such oddball items.
Very cute and cool, whatever it is!
Obiwan to Luke,who is eating peas with a knife: " Luke, *** *** ****"
Say truth but don't denigrate.
Most any coin you find in the street likely has had a few adverse encounters between vehicle tires and rough pavement. Still worth face value,...
Also wonder about the appearance of this coin's obverse.
While metal detecting I've dug many clad coins, including a few that were really dirty and corroded. If this was such a coin and the finder...
For a circulated Jeff, it looks very crisp; esp for a pre-war.
That good, honest copper penny appears to have been run over by one or more cars while lying on a gritty, paved surface. Then it seems to have...
Well, you undoubtedly have the right of this, but the thoughts that I expressed originally sprang from genuine distress at the image of perfectly...
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