Mohawk

Don't get that near your coins, period!!! Unless.....you want to make yourself an Etsy error. In that case, that's likely the right tool for the job..........

Now THAT'S something right there!! I wonder how many cents are on that car........

Thanks, James!! I don't think there will be much suffer ring in our marriage.....provided my MIL keeps her narcissistic self parked in her own house and far away from us. However, if she doesn't, she'll likely get to chat with a nice police officer when my fiancée calls them. And if my MIL thinks my fiancée wouldn't call the cops if her mom got crazy, well, she's in for a shock, let me tell you But seriously, we have a great relationship. I'm very lucky and blessed.

Definitely. West German proof coins (and East German ones for that matter of fact) are absolutely gorgeous coins. But as sleek and amazing as the 1974 and later West German packages are (before 1974, the packaging was basically mylar wrapping. Think 1955-1964 U.S. Proof Sets, but with stiffer plastic), they tend to get scratched up over the years. The East German proof set packages are hardier, so they tend to hold up better.

I wonder if that would work for proof set cases from different countries. I love West German proof sets....they have nice coins and very sharp packaging starting in 1974, but that packaging often looks like this: Could be worth an experiment.

Greg's absolutely correct.....silver and copper cannot rust. It's metallurgically impossible. They can develop corrosion of other kinds, especially copper, but they can't rust. My guess is that your coin has some kind of corrosion related to the copper content. I've seen that on 40% Kennedys before, typically along the edge of the coin. If you post photos, we could likely tell you more about what's going on.

I'm with the others.....I'd try an acetone bath, see what kind of results you get, and go from there.

I actually don't have to worry about that. Her mom has legit, diagnosable Narcissistic Personality Disorder. It's not just an attitude with her mom, it's a real disorder. My fiancée does not have the disorder, so I should be okay. She's 33, so if she had NPD, it would have shown up by now.

Oh you know it!! It'll just be me, my sister, my dad, her two cousins and maybe her dad and grandmother.....it's tough with her family, though, because her mother is a malignant narcissist and a religious whack-a-doodle. My fiancée has a very bad relationship with her mother, so that whole part of the wedding is very.......complicated. We'll just have a few people and a pizza banquet (we're big pizza folks). It's about as cheap of a wedding as you could imagine and the wedding gifts to each other will be......you guessed it....COINS!!! So coins will be part of the wedding as well! I think the biggest cost will be getting her cousin in Texas up here, but that's totally worth it and vitally important.

Hog, if I do find anything for your collection, I'll just send them to you, my friend. No buying needed.

Oh believe me, I'm marrying her. We're officially engaged and we've been together since 2008. Basically, we're waiting for a time where her cousin can perform the wedding for us. He can legally officiate weddings in more....how do I say this.....custom ways, which is important to us. We want more of a ceremony than a courthouse wedding, but we're not Christians, so we don't want that kind of wedding, either. And she wants her cousin who lives in Texas to be her best person, so we have to wait until we can get him up here to the Finger Lakes so he can be there as well. We'll get it all together one of these days. In my case, the family thing is super easy. My family is my dad and my sister, and they live about 30 minutes away, so that's not tough.

Okay, here's one that fits my personality well:

Now that, tj, is great!!!! It's completely different in my house though.....my fiancée and I both have the bug. We'd buy the generic food item so we could put that money into our collections! I'll have to see what I can come up with.

Ooh!! I LOVE a good $3, James!! That's a really cool note...I may have to hunt one of those down for the ol' currency portfolio myself!

No worries. It happens sometimes and it's a part of getting to know folks, which can be a complex and complicated process, especially in a group like this. It's made even more complicated in an online forum like this, where you completely lose facial expression, tone of voice and body language. We have to completely rely on the written word, and that's a difficult adaptation to make. I know a lot about this.....my doctorate is in Higher Education Leadership, with a focus on online distance learning. In addition, I earned both my master's and my doctorate working completely online. So, I have some varied experience with this. I'm also glad that you realized that I said what I said out of a desire to be helpful and not to be critical. I've studied how to integrate new folks into online groups and I've done a lot of it myself. I was definitely trying to help.....I just hope I succeeded.

That's a very nice Berlin Mint 50 pfennig! Thanks for sharing that one!

Hi tj Well, you can never account for what someone may find funny or not. Or what may make someone not be chill. To be honest, this joke wasn't my type of humor, either. I wasn't really amused by it. Just being honest. We're a diverse community and what some people think is funny, others will not. It's just how it goes. But as a general rule of thumb, we do tend to keep it numismatically related around here.

I'm not that kind of Mohawk, tj. I'm a Gremlins fan Mohawk. And I have to say that my avatar will never be a U.S. coin of any type. It'd make no sense as I do not collect U.S. coins at all and haven't for well over 10 years. And even when I did try it on, I only stuck with it for maybe 1 or 2 years. Something like that. I don't remember. I just remember that U.S. coins didn't hold my interest (unless they have a good bird depiction....then they're a bird coin and that does hold my interest). I'm not doing my job well....when you look at a German or Canadian coin and think of me, then we'll be in the correct range But I will add this.....this joke was much more in tune with the kind of humor we tend to appreciate around here than the getting replies and feedback one you posted with that woman's photo. This one was actually pretty good

I know I already did this today but...... If someone who is as bored by U.S. history as I am knows that's highly incorrect, then a George Takei "Oh My" is all I can say.......

Nope. Not at all. No chance. It's just a regular, old 1969-S Cent. Might I ask why you are thinking these coins have OMMs? There's nothing that would even suggest one in either of the coins you posted.

I concur with Mr. Lange. You just have a regular old 1969-D cent. There's nothing indicating any kind of OMM whatsoever.

Man, Hog, I'm really sorry to hear about your son and your family with the COVID exposures and infection. Get well soon and best wishes to all of you!! As for the quarters, yeah, there aren't a lot of 2012s and 2009s out there. If you want, I could keep an eye on our laundry money and see what I find for you. We get $20 in quarters every week to wash our clothes and I do look through the quarters we get.

Hi Diego, I'm with the others.....the marks are some kind of post minting damage, unfortunately.

I'm not surprised to hear that, Coinbuf. This has definitely struck me as a trolling type of situation.

That could be it, Woods. It's about the only thing that could possibly make sense as an explanation, I think. Comparing coins to sketches is not a good idea, I'd say.