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l.cutler

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  1. l.cutler
    I would have to say I agree with the VF details. The cleaning is pretty visible on both.
  2. l.cutler
    I have over 40 Connecticut varieties and most I didn't pay over $50 dollars each for. Many are certainly lower grade but fit my budget. Prices are actually lower now on some than they were several years ago. You can still cherrypick rarer varieties of the Hibernia's as the Martin book is fairly expensive and not everyone has it for attribution.
  3. l.cutler
    There are some areas of Colonial collecting that are relatively affordable. You can still find quite a few Connecticut copper varieties for $20 to $40 dollars, even some R5 varieties. The Hibernia coinage by William Wood is another area, and there is now an excellent reference book on the series written by Syd Martin.
  4. l.cutler
    Looks like a perfectly normal 1964 cent. Not bad shape for it's age though.
  5. l.cutler
    Even though most are fake, a genuine one did turn up in Europe fairly recently. Yours however is clearly a fake, everything about it just screams fake. As Greenstang suggested, look at some photos of originals and you should see the differences.
  6. l.cutler
    Someone had to have put the roll together, and they certainly could have put a couple lower grade coins in. Will be waiting for pictures.
  7. l.cutler
    That is way too small and in the wrong place to be an S mintmark. Just a random mark, I would say.
  8. l.cutler
    I see what looks like a little damage by the mouth but that is all. Maybe just a clear picture of the whole obverse would show better?
  9. l.cutler
    It is larger because it has a bezel surrounding the coin!
  10. l.cutler
    It is in a bezel, formerly some kind of jewelry piece. You can see the edge of the bezel where it is peeling away at the top.
  11. l.cutler
    Welcome to the forum. Unfortunately it is not an error, the third digit took a hit from something damaging it.
  12. l.cutler
    All a die marker is, is something unique to that die. It could be a chip, crack, die polish line something of that sort. It is just something that can be used to identify coins from that die. It is not some secret identifier placed on a die for some special reason.
  13. l.cutler
    I hate to speak for WonderCoin, but his reference to a diagnostic marker is just a die marker that could be used to identify other coins from the same die. His suggestion was to look for other dimes with this same marker, to see if they exhibited the same type of finish or any similarities. It most certainly was not posted as some kind of marker to indicate this coin is something special.
  14. l.cutler
    Still just smooshed somehow!
  15. l.cutler
    Not an error of any kind. The coin has just been flattened in some way. I can't make any comment on the reverse with no picture.
  16. l.cutler
    The experimental coining materials were an attempt so save copper that was needed for the war effort. It really wouldn't make any sense to experiment with an alloy that used more copper.
  17. l.cutler
    It is a replica. These were commonly sold in souvenir shops in historic areas and museums.
  18. l.cutler
    Yep, well aware of Atlee and the Machin's coppers. I have actually collected them off and on for years. This one is definitely not one of them. There are collectors of other counterfeit coppers and many have been catalogued, but I never really got into them beyond the Machin's/Atlee coins so I don't have much info on them.
  19. l.cutler
    Read Conder101's post. It is positively not an evasion, the legends are correct. It is a counterfeit halfpenny plain and simple. During the latter part of the 18th century there were more counterfeit halfpennies in circulation than genuine. Some of these were made in America and some in Britain. The American made "Machin's Mill" pieces carry the highest premium but this piece is not one of these. It is most likely a British made counterfeit. 1776 pieces are quite popular because of the "magic" date.
  20. l.cutler
    Looking at the diagnostics, I don't believe it is a 1916. Everything I see points at 1917.
  21. l.cutler
    Brian, that is exactly how acid reacts to a copper nickel clad coin. The copper core reacts differently than the copper nickel outer layers, I have seen it happen on dozens of coins. Your coin is a perfectly normal, but damaged copper nickel clad quarter. As stated previously, your coin can not be on a silver Canadian quarter because it is struck on a copper nickel clad planchet, which was not produced until 1965.
  22. l.cutler
    1976
  23. l.cutler
    No need to get in such a huff, nobody said it was a hanging offense. When you join an online forum though, you agree to abide by the rules. Simple as that.
  24. l.cutler
    Many people do use aliases, my user name is not my real name. There is a huge difference though between an alias like this, and getting booted on one name and then using another to get back on. This is clearly a violation of the rules on most sites.
  25. l.cutler
    I have heard that the TPG's attribute coins the same way, by standing them up in chairs! That clinches in in my book!