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Let's get an impression of this coin with lovely reflective surfaces and tons of luster. It is really bright and brilliant, more than I can capture.



And then take a look at a closeup of the surfaces.



The horizontal scratches right near the bottom of the photo show white at the top and gray at the bottom. Since this is lit from the top edge of the coin, this means they are raised above the surface - almost like catching the rising sun. So they are incuse on the die, and are from some intense cleaning of the die.

The face is also heavily scratched (not to the naked eye, though) but those lines are not continuations of the lines on the fields. If there were continuous lines from the fields to the devices I would call it harshly cleaned. Instead, we can call the die recently polished. In fact, it looks like it has been reworked enough to lessen the sharpness of the hair near the ear.

Just to stir the pot, exactly why is it we accept harsh cleaning / polishing if it was done to the die in the mint, but not if it was done by a collector later in time? I don't see all that much difference between a scratch that is incuse and one that is raised. Just something to think about, is all.

 

1826 PCGS Bust half, O-114 R4

I just bought it to bump this thread...

 

Ah, I’ll add that to my list of excuses to buy coins.

 

I won this last night. It's going into my type set.
NGC Type 3 Slab

 

1941-s and 1943 mercury dime from @1916D10C

 

guy across town answered my ad in the local newspaper and sold me a book of mercury dimes, minus the 16D for $300. The 42/41 was there.

 

My Apollo $5 gold proof arrived this evening. It’s a bear to photograph for me. Maybe one of you folks with superior photo skills will post if you bought one.

At any rate, I really like this one!

 

Best cameo I’ve seen on pre-65 silver proof coinage. So for 13 bucks, it’s mine!
None of those little white squiggly things are on the coin, it’s just light reflection.

 

Heck, somebody ought to put that picture beside the word cameo in the dictionary.

 

Thanks bud! This isn’t the type of thing i’m really into at the moment, I couldn’t pass it up though. Right place, right time!

 

Mint did a nice job with that one....

 

For my type set. I really like the die clash on the obverse.

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1833 H10C AU58 by JPeace$ posted Jan 29, 2019 at 9:12 PM

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1833 H10C AU58 reverse by JPeace$ posted Jan 29, 2019 at 9:12 PM

 

Got my half dollar sets in today. The curved coin is tricky to photograph. I had to change up the lighting quite a bit between the obverse and reverse shots.

 

Oh that reverse is cool as hell.... It looks like an actual photograph from the moon, how cool... now I want one haha

 

hi Everyone it has been to long since I’ve post pictures of newp’s. Tonight I will begin catching up. I hope you all have been goin well and staying out of trouble. Oh, that was me, I forget. You’ll be happy to know I have kept my nose to the grind stone and have had no run ins with the Coin ‍♀️.
I’m going to simply start at the end of my album and begin uploading. I’m sorry if I’ve sent a few up already and your seeing them for second time I’m still a coin collector ONLY with a new page for coins C2CCollector.com. Since starting the page Coin World has copied my plan and Heritage has used pieces. Coping my slogan and more . That great to me.... here we go...

 

Good to see you back Hugh. I’ve been off and on here a lot too last couple years

 

Hard to image the Obverse of the new Apollo 11 coins. Reverse a little easier.

Proof Dollar

Uncirculated Dollar


Proof Half


Uncirculated Half

 

I'm going to singlehandedly kill the market for these if I keep finding them. Pop 3 in all grades and I've found 3 others in the last month alone! FS-901 Rusted Reverse Die.

 

I love the proof....