Jack has done that for a number of coins.
A lot of people seem to have gotten covid at the EAC convention, including at least two people who were masked almost the entire time. My wife and...
VF-20
XF-ish
Even the rims are bad.
Very nice. Just about like the one my mom gave me that she had found in circulation when she was young. It started me collecting coins.
Accurate, concise and clear.
Many thanks.
You can be a collector of a series but still buy opportunistically within the series. That's what many have done.
Jack and his work are definitely heroic to numismatics.
Very nice, gemmy looking coin.
To me, it looks AU. Maybe nicer in hand, but the photos don't look MS. Particularly the obverse.
I agree that they are from contamination. Tiny dust specks or droplets from someone's breath.
The one above would also not qualify as the canonical no-D. To get that designation, it must have a strong reverse. The no-D/weak reverse has some...
If it's overpriced to YOU, don't buy it. Let someone else have it.
It's what they call a "weak D." You can see it in the photos. Definitely NOT the no-D.
Easy. You buy the coin and not the number on the little piece of paper inside the plastic thing that also holds the round thing. Don't buy coins...
Nice half cent. Congratulations.
I think NGC got this one right.
in EAC, that coin is graded MS60-63 and is considered the third finest. MS 69 is an absurd grade for an early copper.
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