To me, MS is primarily used as a point grading system and BU is not.
The smaller notes cost less to make. More per sheet, less ink, etc., etc., etc. :)
It was a cost savings measure.
Your photos get blurry when I try to enlarge but it appears to me that this was damaged after it left the mint so PMD. Welcome to CT.
I have a coin like that somewhere in my collection. It’s damaged by someone that had an excess of time on their hands.
Cracking a holder. :)
You did great! Told you it looked zinc.
I can’t believe how nice these coins are.
Looks doubled to me but from a worn die. Also looks zinc but with no obverse photo I can’t say for sure.
Your coin looks like it was cleaned once before. As for the green, it looks like PVC residue to me. Not sure of the best way to deal with that.
I was thinking the same thing. Lol
I didn’t know if I’d make it before years end or not but I did with time to spare. Here’s a great paper money error. One I’ve wanted for some time...
Thanks. From my mother’s side and she was born and raised in southern Virginia.
Nice one Randy but Grant is a distant relative of mine, for real.
The autograph will contain more value than the note itself will. To a collector of paper money the note is interesting but it is considered damaged.
Yes, but the bottom of the S is slightly damaged.
AD 54-68 BI Tetradrachm 23mm, 13.42 g, 12h Dated RY 13 (AD 66/67) Obv.: Radiate bust left, wearing aegis Rev.: laureate bust right of Apollo...
A ridge ring looks like a rim on the face of a coin, usually into the letters or design of the coin. All because of a tired, worn out, over used die.
Yes it’s a Woods Hibernia but I believe it’s an early colonial coin that circulated in a very young America, before we became a nation. It should...
I personally can not give this coin a full steps grade.
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