Recent content by enamel7

It couldn't be more obvious that this is pmd.

Back-of-the-boat is correct. This coin was exposed to heat.

Sorry I'm late to the party. This is definitely damage. Like galenrog said, caught in machinery an either flattened or worn down.

You're correct, your eyes are deceiving you. Pareidola.

Possibly caught under the edge of something spinning, like in a dryer drum. Definitely not missing a step of the minting process. It's damage.

Sorry, but even with the bad picture it appears to be md, called mechanical doubling. It is the worthless kind.

They won't get worse. Not because of the US anyway. The majority of the smog that's in LA every day isn't produced in LA. It's produced in China and drifts eastward. We're actually going into an ice age. Nome just had their worst winter in a hundred years.

I would call that significant!

Wow! Great to see alot of the old gang! I read the forum almost every day, but sadly there aren't near as many posts as there used to be.

Do not buy the 16D raw! This coin is heavily counterfeited. I was once told that 4X as many people have them in their collection as actual coins were produced. I was lucky enough to have found one in circulation years ago! That will never happen again!

A proof coin that's no longer in the condition it left the mint. It has circulated and gotten scratches.

Where at in NC? You can pan in Uwharrie, but no detectors allowed. Other than that you have either pay to play or get permission on private property. I'm President of the Statesville Chapter of the GPAA, so if close we have outings every month.

No. It's simply a missing clad layer. The missing layer caused not enough thickness to add the letters. Not a cud.

I'm thinking possibly corrosion due to the environment, possibly fertilizer.

Just toning. Also, they didn't come from the mint like that. Courier company wrapped them.