I normally don't attach much importance to provenance. It just doesn't matter to me much who owned before me any given coin. However, This one...
Good question. I bought this from a Stacks/Coin Galleries sale in the early '90's. I would tend to think Stacks would know better. As far the...
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Very nice and impressive group of EAC's! I see you focus on the middle and late dates.
Thanks for posting that nice coin, Sam. Lots of cracks! Talking about cracks at home: we had a couple of those too and it freaked me out thinking...
Those are very nice examples - thanks for posting them. I was looking at completed sales for the E/A variety yesterday, and noticed that about...
Thank you very much for your comments. This was an Ebay find. I liked the tone and did not notice the E/A attribute until the coin arrived.
This is really the way it looks - a lively coin. However, the reverse is very weak. How would one grade this coin? [ATTACH]
That is a very nice example with attractive tone.
Very interesting comments - thank you very much. Not my best purchase decision, it seems. Still, a scarce date (thank you @samclemens3991 for the...
Thank you. The surfaces have very little if any lustre left at all. There are no signs of an aggressive cleaning, that I can tell. Does the fact...
I bought this coin at a Stacks auction back in 1989. It was fairly bright when I got it, but the cataloguer did not mention any cleaning in the...
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