Anybody think these are the same coins? I am curious if it was bought by Legend in '07. I am almost 100% sure they are the same. SOLD: http://coins.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=444&Lot_No=489 For sale: http://www.legendcoin.com/cgi-bin/inventory/itemlist.pl?category=Half Dimes (the 1857). Jesh
Look at obverse, marking's by 1st and 2nd star, and similiarity in toning on the whole obverse. Odds of that right there is extremely unlikely. 2nd check the reverse, between the H and A in HALF. Same marks. PCGS 3/0... still think they are different?
The coins were struck with the same dies but they are 2 different coins. Look at the light scratch to the right of the F in HALF on the Heritage coin - not there on the Legend coin.
Well that's just it, the toning is similar but it is not the same. Easy explanation would be that at some point in time, likely early on, both coins were owned by the same person.
I agree with George however it looks as though it has been cleaned now as the marks in between the "States of" are gone hmmm Plus the color looks a little bleached now ... hmmm
My guess is that those marks are on the planchet and just do not show at Legend photographically. Were the coin cleaned, the first thing to come off would be the toning and it does not look like that has bee touched.
Well the coin in question is on sale from Legend, and George said it was the same coin. I don't see why he'd say otherwise. (Right?) One big difference here is the light used in the pictures from HA and from Legend are different, you can tell that part easily. I think that the lighting is causing the reverse to not show the marks. I've taken pictures of my coins with different lighting and/or slightly different angle change and it can dramatically change the appearance of the coin.
Don't know but it's not visible on HA's site when you look at the picture of the coin and full slab. Jesh
I suspect you are looking for things that don't show up in one or the other picture. You have more than once stated that pics can hide/show things virtually at random. I do not think that method is valid. I look for things that are the same. Assuming 1/3 of all those coins have the same mark in the same spot (and that is ridiculously too high), when you find 10 commonalities (same mark/color, same spot), the odds are 60,000 : 1 that they are the same coin. Even on your close ups, I found that many commonalities. Now if that 1/3 is 1/4, the odd are 1,048,000 : 1 and I would guess 1/10 would be more valid.
You're right I am looking for things that are not in both pics. And I absolutely agree that pics can hide things. But hiding raised metal like at the top of the F in 1 pic and not there at all in the other pic - and hiding a scratch, (if it is a scratch, might be raised as well), is a lot less likely. Both coins definitely have the same die clash marks. And different pics could easily explain the color differences. It is just that stuff by the F has me questioning. Pics don't hide that. Guess I'll have to just disagree with the fellow.
