I look at every coin I come across. I even looked at an entire box of 2010d dimes. Didn't find anything special, but I looked. I did find a...
Thats sweet
I know this is an older thread, but I just found a 1969 cent counterstamped July 20 with the lunar lander. Same coin as the OP
Silver might be a good idea at this price ? It does seem to have reached a low support level.
Hello my friend. Just haven't been around. Health issues, commitment issues, all the things old guys go through. LOL Still roll searching...
I keep all I find.
How timely I saw this. My son gave me a $100 gift certificate at a coin store for my birthday a few months ago. He finally said he could take me...
I learned to tell the difference by looking at a 91 (wide A M) next to a 95 (close AM). With the coins in hand, the differences become readily...
1000 uncirculated cents are only $10 cashed in. The copper value of them has to be about 2c each, although it is illegal to melt them for the...
That's why you need to know your coin before you part with it. Last year a dear friend got two ms 1944 D/S cent from a dealers bargain bin for $2...
I would probably have started the car and sucked on the tailpipe before I read Vanity Fair. LOL
I found a 1c 1979 D 1mm 003 MS60 today. Really surprised me, because this box has been a dry run.
I catalog by 1) Casino Name. 2) Denomination 3) Storage location 4) Description. That way you can add fields with the pic ref number, storage...
Looks like someone punched it on there with a small flat blade screwdriver. Why ? Can't guess. But years ago, every high school in the USA had...
I believe it to be MD. When examining a possible error, I put my scope to 30x, then rotate the coin to get a variation on the light reflecting off...
Congrats. The poor economy has gotten a number of people to cash in those old coin jars. There seems to always be something good out there in...
On the clad coinage, especially cents, I've noticed while error searching that there are many, many instances of what looks like doubling. I...
Doubled mint marks were caused when the engraver struck the punch that created the mark in the die more than one time. For instance, the engraver...
coppercoin shows 14 varieties of doubling on 1983 D cents. The discoloring or smudge on the 2007 looks like PMD (Post Mint Damage) to me. The...
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