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When I read that, I thought of the commercial where a guy is sitting at an outside table close to a swamp eating pizza and dousing it with hot...
Mine hasn't been worth enough to sell... :)
Very nice, but cartoonish
Looks like a die crack, not marker...
For something like this, dabbing with duct tape or some such might have worked too.
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@dougsmit I love your pressings!!!
Yeah, just an old tired quarter...somedays I know how it feels...
@Insider
People here usually love a challenge.
But copper, right?
Oops, that's why I usually say wait...
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I think that is called split-plate doubling where the thin copper coating split from the zinc.
Water will float the graphite off, and it isn't pure graphite, it also contains clay as a binder...Google is your friend.
That's why you check the "sold" prices...
Oh, c'mon you have to have at least one Columbian... :)
Since I've opened my mouth and been wrong, I should keep shut, but I think proof coins lack luster......now I'll wait for @GDJMSP to correct me.
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