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Earle42

Sorry. I have no idea.

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Acetone cannot meddle with the metal of your medal (or coin)! Soak it for a month, in a closed container to prevent evaporation of the acetone, and nothing chemically or physically happens to the metal of the coin. Yes...I have...to prove the point :D Please also see the PM I sent you on wisely usin...

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We'll have to agree to disagree, the graders look at coins for seconds and will not note errors or varieties unless you point them out and pay extra for the few seconds it takes to see that the error is there. While their are true grading experts in varieties they are not at TPGs, they are at CONEC...

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@Matt No, I am not fluent in German and only play with it a little. I would LOVE to be fluent but find when I try for another language I get it mixed up with my Spanish! Ich peudo spreche Espanol mein hermano! Anyway, I would not want to try script in this, but reading very old versions of the Bible...

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Fun discussion everyone! The mention of it being a foreign language was a joke, but understanding the cursive was not. For a younger person like me [early 30's], cursive was phased out in school. The only cursive I use today is in my signature. It's an interesting observation that cursive is an imp...

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@Matt

This one?

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Some people hoard them oping the US government will lift the ban on melting and selling them for profit. I know it is loophole, but it is actually legal to melt them, and NOT sell the copper. People with forges who want copper to cast various metals in molds sometimes use them for this. Nowadays it ...

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Welcome to the forum. We are glad you are here :D Common. Some help: Looking for random anomalies on coins and hoping they match up to something collectable will take you a lot more time, wasted effort, and disappointment repeatedly finding out you have nothing but post mint damage, useless machine ...

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This is nothing the hobby would collect/value. Most odd looking coins are just post mint damage. A lot of people are mislead by online clickbait videos and tons of worthless eBay auctions wrongly being sold as rare error coins. If you want to find real error coins, you have to first know what real e...

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Please see the following info about how coin dies are made. You do not have extra letters, but instead you have die chips that coincidentally look like letters to you. This is called pareidolia. It's what makes us see shapes in clouds. From the following link and info, you will see it is physically ...

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Rather than say yes or no, I want to give you something much more valuable...the tools to find out for yourself whenever you suspect you have a doubled die, RPM, or OMM: Please click the following link: Immediate Answers - How to find your Doubled Die or RPM online Note: If you do not find an EXACT ...

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Ditto.

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BTW some help with photos:

Try clicking the following link to find out how to easily take focused pics of coins using only a phone (no special equipment needed):
https://coinauctionshelp.com/forum/view ... hp?t=23514

Earle42

Fun discussion everyone! The mention of it being a foreign language was a joke, but understanding the cursive was not. For a younger person like me [early 30's], cursive was phased out in school. The only cursive I use today is in my signature. It's an interesting observation that cursive is an imp...

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I admit I took advantage of the system and when the price soared I dumped mine. I didn't use them anymore anyway. Good references though!

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Welcome to the forum. We are glad you are here :D Sorry, juts inconsequential die chips. When you understand how coins are minted and how dies are made you will also know it is impossible for coins to have extra letters/numbers and or design elements on them. Looking for random anomalies on coins an...

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Oh so he's the guy who's name is on the insulators then? If so that's really cool! Is there still that magazine "Jewels of the Wire" still around? I've always wanted to find a carnival glass mickey mouse. My old hunting grounds weren't too great for oddities. Mostly Hemmingray 42s in dark...

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Also vs. gler mystery solved: Note the writer had a habit of making heavy handed sweeps when reversing direction of writing with his pen. For example, note how on any word in the letter with a leading letter A, the author tended to always overshoot and leave a "tail" or at least a blob of ...

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Yup...thanks...I messed up again. I meant 2020 as the bill shows.

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"Null and Void" in cursive. I won THREE TIMES my deposit back!! I guess there is an advantage to the modern DC-directed miseducation system after all LOL! I also do not blame the students or, I am sure, the teachers who wish they could actually educate kids nowadays. I used to have an 188...

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Reminds me of mine for condition. As you said, key for a reason! Congratulations!

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Wow...stunning example. Congratulations!

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Had recently returned again from a lengthy hiatus, life and school All of us need to get our priorities straight... So drop all of those and do more in the hobby :teasing-tease: College, marriage, getting established, and children all had me away (sometimes all the way) for quite some time. Nowaday...

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I admit to now knowing much about what the currency hobby technically defines as a birthday note except the concept of it having a date. If I had a child or grandchild born on 5/16/2024 though I can say I would like to have this bill

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They do look just fine in hand and are indistinguishable from an untouched contemporary that does not have a century of attic grime and cigar smoke on it. The are commensurate with all of the coins posted in the replies thereafter. I figured as much. You have an eye for Lincoln pennies. And besides...

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Like the Treble clef...might be right! The man hand punching the mint mark may have been a musician.

That little jab just cost you thirds at all-you-can-eat shrimp night

No problem. I will only be eating shrimp anyway. I have never tried eating a third and am not sure if I would like them.

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You found me out

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Welcome to the forum. We are glad you are here :D We could use better pics. My initial thoughts, and it might just be the pics, is that the details just catch my eye as maybe being a Chinese fake. Try clicking the following link to find out how to easily take focused pics of coins using only a phone...

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Welcome to the forum. We are glad you are here

You can find that at error-ref.com for a good explanation. Copper plated zinc pennies are known for this.

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Welcome to the forum. We are glad you are here :D Thanks for coming here to find out about your coin. But please, the hobby is being damaged greatly by people posting damaged coins and calling them errors on ebay. Mint errors are NOT just odd looking coins. Most odd looking coins are worthless to th...

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Sorry to be a mouse in the cheese here, but I actually like the left hand pictures better fo the 10-S and 13-S. In hand the coins must look better b/c in the pics they remind me somewhat of the color a pencil eraser gives to a penny.

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Former teacher so please forgive as I mean no offense to anyone. But I think it is a tragedy the public "education" system is no longer teaching cursive. It is not like it takes much effort and can easily be taught by showing how it is just adding lines to connect the letters in a very log...

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@Marvic, Please understand that those of us who have been here for awhile have had an awful lot of time wasted by those wanting us to be a free service for them to examine the coins they post and tell us if they have an error so they can post it on ebay and become rich. I cannot tell you the mount o...

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What these pics make me think is just simple post mint damage. A small hit or scratch to the rim.

Please remember you have this in hand and can see the anomaly.

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You are absolutely correct. I was not thinking at all, and was taking the word propaganda as only a negative concept. I should have known better. Slip of the gray matter for sure!

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Welcome to the forum. We are glad you are here

Please see the PM I sent you on using grading companies.

BTW...you can get your own slab-type coin holders to keep it in.

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True writing out definitions helps. But as a teacher I always told kids to look up a word when they asked its definition or else they forgot it. The stated goal of this website is for helping people to educate themselves. I found I was helping out more by having the student put in t abit of work. Th...

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The SBAs were a failure b/c they were too quarter-like in size. Americans were use to reaching in their pocets, pulling out a quarter, and popping it into a vending machine. The vending machine people hated the SBAs b/c they wre large enough to fit in the coin slot, but too large so their machines j...

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