Just a bit of History. The Philippians were a US Territory from the time we acquired it in 1899 from Spain as a result of the Spanish American War...
Is it possible if put under a black light it would show like they do in one of those crime shows?
You have a 1982 large date copper cent. Because it is worn and corroded it weighs .30 a new copper cent weighs .31. Worth 1 cent or 2 cents for scrap.
I thought the $1 presidents were bad I particularly dislike the Statue of liberty and some how the $1 symbol does not look as good as "ONE DOLLAR"...
The front has a few marks but the obverse is special. Too bad you gave it away in the picture of the slab. I would give it a 65.
I throw my change in a box on my dresser and every so often I go through it. I just recently did that and found a 1964 dime. I guess I did not...
Once you left you could not exchange them. I just kept a set as a souvenir.
I saved some when I was in Korea and Vietnam, I also have some others I picked up along the way from WW II era. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Having a cleaned coin to fill a hole in my collection is better than just having a hole.
Years ago the St Francis Hotel in San Francisco cleaned all the money they gave out as change. There may have been other businesses that did the same.
As a follow up I My scale arrived today and the weight was 2.5 gm compared to some normal circulated dimes of 2.4 gm.
I have ordered a scale and will weigh it to see if all the metal is there. I hope that will tell me some more.
I have this 1994-P Roosevelt dime which I got in change a number of years ago and want to share it with you. I believe the Planchet[ATTACH]...
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