NICE!!!!
I agree, appears to be stained from God knows what. It's had a long,hard life. It's always good to rule out surface residues: The first steps to...
It was a fully brown cent that was mostly exposed to an acidic substance, probably soda. The patch is a small area that was not exposed.
And they're still tough to find in red! Millions in BN and RB but full red are more difficult than the lower mintage 31-S. I can go to a show and...
I really like this one! hahahaha [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Here's what San Fran was putting out in the 20's: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
The 1923-S, 1924-S and the 1925-S are some of the hardest coins in the series due overuse of the dies. San Fran was under tremendous pressure to...
The TPGs struggle with the 20's branch issues (like most of us). This 23-S has clearly seen some light circulation and ANACS was far too generous....
An excellent example of cartwheel luster! The spokes are clearly visible. OP - Hold your coin under direct light and tilt it back and forth, look...
I second the ability to have a decent sealing lid. Perhaps a way to incorporate a large desiccant pack too. If you could integrate a sacrificial...
Wow, nice score on the wheats - incredible to find a 1919 in change!
In a couple of years they will down to or near issue price.
Looks like heat damage. Zinc has a lower melting point than copper so it tends to rise to the surface.
I did manage a find some nice toners from the 1970's in my gem quest. Sometimes an OBW gives back some encouragement! [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
TOUGH coin, for some reason these always look like they went through a meat grinder straight from the mint. I opened many OBW rolls, the 70's are...
The sure liked to polish those dies! Some nice orange toning on this one. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
These things are all so softly struck in the portait. The mints were producing billions and it was all about numbers. 99.9% of the billions are...
This is an amazing example, I don't know where I got it from, probably an OBW. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
1971's are tough coins, I don't care if they made billions. Made me go back and look at mine again. Took me decades of intense searching to find...
The excitement ALWAYS dies down with coins.
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