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The difference between reverse of 1981 coins and reverse of 1982 coins is obvious to the naked eye IMO. The two pictures below, taken from coinfacts, illustrate a sharp 1981P 5c and a sharp 1983 5c. … (View Post)

Grill mark toning occurs on either side of the coin. I have not seen any coins with 2-sided GM toning. (View Post)

I own literally hundreds of US silver coins from BU rolls 1959-1963 which exhibit similar parallel lines, on one side only. You can see others on PCGS coinfacts. The lines become visible when the coi… (View Post)

There is a discussion of this topic in Bernard Nagengast 1980's pioneer Jefferson Nickel book. Nagengast searched countless (original) rolls before writing the book. I recall BB's are particularly co… (View Post)

IMO, definitely so. Some years between 1955-1964, the US mint had excess obverse PR 25c dies and used them to strike ms coins (rather than discard them). 1959 was one such year, for sure. The obv pr … (View Post)