Hey... I am not a physicist.... Obviously!
Oh no.... I must be looking quite foolish right now..... It appears to me that there is a coating on the edge of the cent that is flecking away.
It was in a bezel that was too tight for the cent.
This is a stretch...I think the cent was coated in polyurethane or lacquer to adorn some curio item. When the curio item outlived its usefulness...
I am glad I hit this one after it was answered. My brain was trying to get much too scientific on me when the whole time it was the simple answer....
I’ll be the odd man out. I suspect that is not a proof coin but was an early strike with a new die. I am at MS66.
Already plundered your link. And I thank you for it!
Well dang it.... now I gotta look it up too.... I had my money on the foil coin pressings. There was a cool thread about those a week or so ago.
Yup... As an old guy that collected in the 60's I will wholeheartedly agree with the fellers above. I still prefer my coins blast white.
Another superb article. I have the five, ten, and twenty dollar notes. Now I'll have to dig them out of my safe tonight to see if they have the...
I laughed my kazoo off at that. I won’t be repeating that performance. LOL
Man, I do love a beautiful seated lady.
I am not a confederate note expert at all. I have an interest because we have a handful of notes that passed down through my wife's family that...
Bless you, Dave!
Are you sure that one exhibits doubling? I have a hard time seeing it.... LOL!!! Now that is the most extreme doubling I have ever seen!! That is...
I was a coin crazy kid in 1976. It was quite exciting to see these as the mint hadn’t given us anything new and different for a very long time (in...
Not too bad.... But enough for the wife not expect any more chores done!
Better than the mistake I made today..... Watered the grass and then got out my ladder to clean a gutter. Ladder slipped in the wet grass and I...
I am absolutely not a photographer. I struggle with cell phone photos. Looking at your examples from a layman’s standpoint, the white background...
Yeah, that is a damaged nickel. It’s been on a gravel or asphalt surface and has been walked or driven on. Coins damaged like this tend to have...
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