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Thus causing a struck through it appears. Thats a pretty cool succession of coins there.

You are very welcome Patman. There are members here on the forum who freely donate and devote their time to answering questions, such as the nature of yours here, that are more than eager and willing to help out other members and answer their down to earth, honest and valid questions and concerns. Unfortunately, It's those members that want to argue with us whom we try to inform, and help out, that become "thorns in our side" so to speak. You asked a valid question, you got an honest and educated answer from several experienced seasoned veteran forum members (not meaning or including myself) and I guarantee you that your comment was MUCH appreciated!!! I believe I can speak for the rest of us in saying this. Thank you.

Couldn't be anything other than a 1925 Wheat Cent and the 1 in the date has been displaced IMHO. I wouldn't even consider this a grease filled die as bad of shape and damaged as this Cent is. It is only worth the value of its copper content.

Did an acetone soak. It looks a little better just from removing a years worth of haze but it still has the same copper discoloration, in the same areas, as my original pics. Oh well, no need to spend anymore time on this one, not a game changer regardless, and if it was an IA it wouldn't be worth more than $20 bucks or so. But... I still just want to come across one.... I'll find a bonafide example sooner or later. Thanks for all the comments.

Same thought process here Coinbuf. You must have read my mind. I have been thinking about just going ahead and giving it a drink of acetone to see what happens. I have used acetone on both Copper Lincolns and copper/nickel alloy Jeffersons and it has never done harm to either. With that thinking..... based on the info Mike Diamond published from his discussion with a Mint Director concerning annealing, the pure copper within the coin's mixed alloy ingredients migrates to the surface due to mistakes made while in the oven and during the annealing process such as oxygen entering the annealing oven as @Oldhoopster pointed out earlier in this thread. I'm not a chemist but I can understand how this would happen. Mike Diamond (I believe it was him if I remember correctly) also said that improperly annealed planchets can take on a host of different colors and that they may or may not exhibit their "off color" on the entirety of the planchet's surfaces. I'm going to try @J P Mashoke's suggestion first and if if doesn't work I'll try acetone. Standby.

Hello @numisport. You are absolutely 100% correct on that one hence my joke about if anyone wanted to just get rid of one then they could send it to me..... lol. Anything MS is way outside of my budget. I'm just patiently looking around for an 83-S AU example that my wallet can support. It would finish out my year set for this Morgan. I know it's a small "set" in the grand scheme of things, but to me it is important and would be the first Silver set (even just being a year set) I would have ever assembled.

Awesome! If only he had "Dirty Harry" in his right hand..... ha!

@Mr.Bill347 Congrats!! Nice Peace there!! And I'm glad the Mint is still keeping their boxes very simple and eloquent in design. I like that.

Hey Bill. I know ya didn't coin roll find this nice One Pound but it has been ridiculous at the number of 1 Cent pieces I have recently been finding CRH'ing lately. And some rather older ones at that. They aren't in the best of shape except for a few of them. I found two 1963 reverse oddities (can't remember the exact term for them, something like a hanging 3 in the date????) both in the same roll. I thought they were pretty cool so I hung onto them. Nice pick up there on your coin!

Hello @EdG_Ohio. I viewed your coins on GC (some that I could afford....lol) and low and behold I was the winning bidder on one of them last night, wooohooo!!! I am very excited to receive it. You definitely had some beautiful slabbed coins there for sure! Thanks for letting us know about your auction items.

I'm glad to see someone has actually taken the initiative to keep from getting their oils and fingerprints permanently embedded on a coin. But, at the same time, it would still be best to hold your coins by the edge. Just FYI.

Hello sir, or madam, I haven't viewed your profile nor will I. Just for the record, I would like to point out one important thing here Mr. or Mrs. TopPop. I believe you are in strict violation of Rule 6.(a) yourself, 'Your Conduct'. You have intentionally, with malice aforethought, defamed and created slander and libel against VKurtB, Coinbuf and I. You intentionally, and blatantly, accused us of harming the hobby and industry, with no grounds in which to do so, and further have no evidence in which to prove your allegations. These accusations can, and have the propensity to, detrimentally affect the livelihood of those actively involved (meaning VKurtB, Coinbuf and I) in the field of Numismatics who depend on our knowledge, customer relationships, and coin sales as a means of valuable and important income in which to provide for, and support, our families. You further called us "trolls" and "hostile". As a personal victim of severe Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (otherwise known as PTSD), your unfounded comment(s) have deeply hurt me, discouraged me, and have more importantly set me back from what small amount of progress I have made in the past three years after spending countless dollars of my own money on therapy and counseling which insurance does not cover. In addition, please allow me to introduce subsection (a) of the Rules for your reference: "a) provide any Content or perform any conduct that may be unlawful, illegal, threatening, harmful, abusive, harassing,". Mr. or Mrs. TopPop, I truly hope you feel good about yourself by purportedly turning us in to the NGC administrators for our "troll posts" which, I would like to further add, is without a doubt defamation of character. If this brings you solitude, and makes you feel like you have accomplished something, then by all means congratulations. I would like to offer you one bit of advice here. In the future and going forward, I would be very careful what you post on whatever website, social media outlet, etc. you may be on. In all reality, the accusations you have made here are illegal.

Hey guys, sorry for the delayed response and thank you for your comments. I had the trick-or-treat Halloween thing tonight and I'm just now settling in at 3:00 AM....🙄. I am familiar with the edge coloration on an IA as Fred has explained and that it needs to look like the normal surface of an unaffected coin. I should have initially posted pictures of the edge of this Nickel in my opening post, my apologies. Here are some pictures of the edge which I tried to rotate 90 degrees at a time. The edge looks like the shiny surface of a normal Jefferson and is actually reflecting the blue flannel shirt next to the coin if you can see this. This normal edge color was also one of the factors and reasons I believed this coin to be a possible candidate for an IA. Thanks.

Not prying here... but it's in a 2x2. Did you purchase this as an error from a dealer?

You have started another thread on this coin. Please review the question asked on your thread. Thanks.

Welcome to NGC. Your steel Lincoln appears to be genuine and not plated or reprocessed IMO. It looks to have original mint luster on the obverse and reverse of your coin in your second and third pics which is not something consistent with re-plated steel Cents. I'm with @Just Bob ,who is a professional here on the forum, about a picture of the edge of your coin. This will tell us a lot. Also, a die crack is a very common thing on all denominations and is not a Mint error. It is considered a die event and adds no extra premium to a coin unless it is completely out of the norm and substantially large but then you are getting into an entire different category of die issues which are not considered die cracks (too much to explain here). Your Cent, in my opinion, is not worth spending the money on a submission.

@Mohawk and @Quintus Arrius..... In the respectful effort to help you get your fill of a genuine O Mint Mark (which I TOO had rather see the real deal than a privy....), I decided to post my 1883-O Morgan. And @MorganMan, your 1883-O is gorgeous!!! I am fairly new to Morgans for the most part but I adore them and I am still learning about them. By the way...... if anyone has an 1883-S Morgan they just hate, despise and want to throw away because they are tired of it lingering around...... PLEASE just PM me and I will send you my address. Heck, I will even pay for postage.

I can understand that. I probably shouldn't have added that third pic. It really made it look different than it appears in hand. Thanks hoop!

Here's an IA Jefferson picture from Error-Ref.com Mine looks to resemble the same copper coloration albeit there is a difference in the lighting of this photo vs. my pics. In addition, per Error-Ref, an IA planchet can be both spotty or entirely complete in its color which I'm sure you know. Just thought I'd add this in here. By no means am I tying to convince anyone here. Just thought I had a decent shot at having found one. Like I always say.... no big deal, ain't the end of the world. There's one out there with my name on it floating around just waiting on me patiently.

Hey bsshog, I have looked at 100's of IA's in the past (trying to learn what to look for) and I know for a fact it is definitely hard to discern what is and what isn't an IA. I've seen some on HA that I thought were questionable but then some that were just beautiful and by the book. This one just appears to have all the characteristics, especially since it is a newer Nickel which I know doesn't really matter but may possibly lend some credit. J P, there isn't any blistering or anything like that going on at all. There's not any lamination issues either. Just a nice copper color on both the obverse and reverse. I've read up on everything Mike Diamond has posted about these things and the coloration on mine looks to be spot on with some he has posted and discussed in the past. Thanks for the replies and comments guys!

I'm 0-3 on these things here posting on the forum but I just so bad want to find one in the wild so I can check it off the bucket list. I know they aren't worth the cost of submission but I JUST WANT ONE (that I found)!!! I think this is my best shot at having found one. What say ye?

I guess the old saying "Don't mess with Texas" holds true in this case if you haven't seen this pop up yet.......

Here's a 1966 Jefferson SMS I picked up at the Dalton, GA coin show several months ago and just now getting around to posting. As usual lately..... my pics are not good these days due to either a faulty camera or user error (most likely the later of the two) and it is driving me crazy because these pics don't do justice. I only gave $5 bucks for it (maybe that was too much) but I thought it was a pretty good snag. Especially since I picked up that beautiful 1967 SMS, which I already posted awhile ago here on this forum, and I also picked up two 1965 SMS Jeffersons at the same time. I believe I only gave $25 for all four coins combined.

You're welcome. Best of luck with ultimately determining what you have here. Please let us know if you come to a conclusion.

Here's what I'm thinking. If you have measured this thing correctly and this thing is only 15mm across from side to side (diameter) which is pretty darn small (smaller than a $5 Gold Eagle bullion coin) and it weighs 3.5 grams which is slightly heavier than a $5 Gold Eagle which would weigh in at 3.39 grams, and it is not attracted to a magnet........ my guess is that it may very well made of a precious metal. Don't get your hopes up, these are just my observations. I am not an ancient or a foreign coin knowledgeable person by any means. But, I do not know of any foreign coins that are typically this small granted your measurements are accurate. @JKK would be the one who knows about any foreign coins in this size range, not me. I'm still leaning toward this being a small button of some type. Which kind, if it is a button, is beyond me.