Wow, 5 pages to answer a simple question. YES! :) Is it a problem? That's a whole other question.
You can if you are an advanced collector and just click-click WON'T find you what you are looking for, at least not anytime soon. So you have to...
Yes, but he probably isn't collecting. He's roll hunting to sell and make a fortune from pocket change. :)
Scotch would leave residues, if you are going to use ethyl alcohol go with Everclear 190.
Glad I could help, even if the help was for someone else over a year ago. :)
Definitely an underweight planchet, I see no evidence of damage or corrosion. One thin I do not is that the strike appears to be full at...
Roller marks and linear plating blister are related. It is the roller marks that provide the nucleus sites for the linear plating blisters to form.
You will also note that on the early "scrubs" he concentrated on the fields and avoided the details, probably so that when he moved to the very...
Actually in the tens of tons, 40 tons for the cent and dime, 75 tons for the quarter, small dollar and possibly half dollar, the five cent...
It's a mixed set, I see the dollar nickel and quarter as type 2, and the cent, dime , and half as type 1
Radial die flow lines.
I guess I'm not "refined" I think your 94 looks great. I know I would be tickled to have it in my collection.
It only list the 82 and 83 sets because there were no mint sets those years, but the souvenir sets were made over a much longer period. The only...
They don't specifically say it is on a different planchet, give a weight or any other information. To me it looks like it is slightly larger than...
I always think it im more fun to spend Ikes, you have to be about 50 years old to remember these as a circulating coin (and they barely circulated...
Not a token, a token has or had some kind of exchange value. This is a medallion (Assuming a size of no greater than 2 inches, larger than that...
All I can tell from the front image of the slab is that it was slabbed after April 2000. That's when they went to the 19 character bar code. It is...
In fact a finned edge is a feature of the genuine 1911 D quarter eagle. Almost all of them show a finned edge in a specific location
See post #2. If it was struck on a wrong planchet, what planchet and where did it come from? No other US coin around that year is magnetic, and...
I believe what you are seeing is a fin not a raised rim.
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