They know it's garbage. I can't believe anyone would even actually buy that crud. Ebay is a legalized con game. It is a disgrace.
That makes sense about the broadstrike flattening out the clips.
Worth melt value which is a lot for a coin they made over a billion of and you can still find in circulation over 60 years later.
I have a nice 09 from circulation. I used to hang out with a guy (1980s) who ran a newsstand and candy store, at night and we would play chess. He...
Prob need to show the edge where the "clips" are as well as the reverse. I am not doubting any authenticity, it looks pretty good. However, I...
What I will do when I ask a question in the search engine, is at the end of the question you can put -ai and you won't get an AI response.
Around 1981 when the Hunt Brothers tried to corner the silver market driving prices to the highest they had ever been, there was a "great melt"....
So it still could be good, just a different die pair? So the MM could be in a diff location.
I edited my post. The mint mark does not match. Very hard to see from your photo which may be intentional. But when I copied it and blew it up the...
Yours blown up:[ATTACH]
On second look, your C does not match the C in this genuine example. [IMG]
If it was not cleaned $40 is the correct price. What is important is that you are happy with it. I thought it was advertised as a matte proof....
Never cared about it for one second.
I didn't see the "matte look", but I am not an expert. But I would agree with business strike and cleaned. If the edge is not wide and squared,...
That's a nice long one. I have a couple that are shorter. Click full image when you post a photo.
Well once the head was pointed out to me, I can see that it looks bad. I was only looking at the leg.
The hair details seem too strong to be a business strike. While it may not have circulated there are some carbon spots on the reverse as well as...
Yes but the reverse indicates damage, even if the obverse is a greaser.
Yes on the plating blisters common with the copper coated zinc disgrace coins.
Spent 20 years in an industrial dryer and then escaped to a truck filled with biohazardous waste which was then hanging around 3 Mile Island when...
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