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2. Coin rolling scams - Wikipedia

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   Pennies from pre-2010 and nickels minted between 1982 and 2000 are very common because their composition is similar to American coins, so coin counting machines can't tell the difference. Various currencies, including the 500 Italian Lira coin, the 5 South African Rand coin, and the 10 Thai baht coin, are similar to the 2 Euro coin and are ...

3. Coins of the pound sterling - Wikipedia

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   Examples of the standard reverse designs minted until 2008. Designed by Christopher Ironside (£2 coin is not shown).. The standard circulating coinage of the United Kingdom, British Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories is denominated in pennies and pounds sterling (symbol "£", commercial GBP), and ranges in value from one penny sterling to two pounds.

4. ANACS (coin grading company) - Wikipedia

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   During the coin collecting boom of the 1960s, counterfeiters would alter common-date coins, and either add or remove a mintmark in order to sell the coins as their more-valuable counterparts. (For example, an 'S' mint mark would be added to a 1909 VDB Lincoln cent in order to increase the coin's value by making collectors think it was a genuine ...

5. Third-party grading - Wikipedia

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   Third-party grading (TPG) refers to coin grading & banknote grading authentication, attribution, and encapsulation by independent certification services.. These services will, for a tiered fee depending on the value of the coin, "slab" a coin and assign a grade of 1–70 on the Sheldon grading system, with 1 being the lowest grade, with only faint details visible to 70, a practically perfect ...

6. Coinstar - Wikipedia

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   Coinstar, LLC (formerly Outerwall, Inc.) is an American company operating coin-cashing machines.. Coinstar's focus is the conversion of loose change into paper currency, donations, and gift cards via coin counter kiosks which deduct a fee for conversion of coins to banknotes; it processes $2.7 billion worth of coins annually as of 2019. [2]

7. Coin counterfeiting - Wikipedia

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   A real British pound coin, of the old type, on top of a fake.This coin was often counterfeited. Defective milling and letters on a counterfeit coin (top) For modern coins in general circulation, the most common method of protection from forgeries is the use of bi-metallic coins made of two metals of different color, which are difficult to counterfeit at low cost.