It kinda looks doubled, to me, but I think the not-rare kind of doubling? Or is that just reflections?
Then again, some are just brutal in a brutal way...
Yours looks a tiny bit nicer! But while mine was out in the world working hard and being useful, yours was hiding out and resting somewhere! ;)
Yours looks a little bit nicer! But yeah, it's an amazing thing to consider... something owned, used, by so many people, through the years,...
I looked that up. :happy:
Yes. 1633. The year of the trial of Galileo.
...and the second surprise is... it's not really worth much! (I just looked it up) Amazing.
Wow. that looks like it. So maybe really 1633.
I should note, this wasn't a coin auction. Just regular stuff-- this was mixed in with some coins from the 50's and some tokens, in a small box.
I just started to go through some old foreign coins I won recently at auction, found this one. Any help identifying it? (sorry[ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Lordy, Spark, I have enough trouble taking a pic holding a coin in my fingers. Or on a flat surface. But I will try. Maybe. Tomorrow.
Thanks for that, @Lueds -- and as far as I can tell, with the use of the printed-out degree-circumference thingie, @expat is our winner. 35 degrees.
Thank you!! That looks right.
But I can't find anything on any of that....
My bad-- Marco 1268 2 Fatus is what's written
[IMG][IMG]It's for sale at an auction near me. I tried to research it but no luck. Thanks for any help.
Lincoln Cent Resource says mint tolerance is 8 degrees or less... not trying to pick a fight but I do think it's more than that... ;) (if I WAS...
So I finally found, in the wild, a rotated die! It's a non-discernable date, but still cool, I think. I don't know how to estimate the rotation......
Don't forget to post pics when you get it-- I for one am psyched about the chance that it's a DDO.
In the second pic of the original post, I see a split serif on the R -- in trying to learn about doubling, a split serif seems to be a sign of a...
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