I've found lots of coins like that--in the middle of streets with lots of traffic!
Amazed? Amused? Amassed, if that's a word?
CAC doesn't go lower. If they don't think it's worth a green bean at its current level, they just send it back to you.
While roll hunting in the summer of 1960, I found about one circulated 1950-D 5c each day. I never looked for a 1960 small date cent b/c I avoided...
Several pages ago, I assigned a grade of MS62 BN to the OP's '22-D. Thus, I wasn't surprised that it had received a grade of MS63 from PCGS. To...
I once tried to see how many crown-sized foreign silver coins I could accumulate. It was fun, inexpensive, and I made money on them when I sold...
Oh, I lived in Shreveport, La.
If you wanted to find 1950-Ds in circulation, you had to be in the right place. In the summer of 1960, I found enough circulated 1950-Ds and...
Or drop down a grade or two and get a nice, no-problem example.
If that's a "natural A.U.," I'm a monkey's uncle. That's the most unnatural XF I've ever seen.
What about placing a couple of heavy books on it and leaving it for a while?
Not sure how you got VF for the obverse. It's a G-VG all the way, or possibly a liberal VG8 as another poster wrote.
The grade of this coin shows you that you can't grade all Wheaties by the strength of the lines in the wheat stalks. I have a reference book by...
MS62 BN.
If you're interested in buying used coin books, look on Amazon and eBay. You'll find most everything there.
I think you meant "upgrade," not ungrade in your title. I find this whole discussion impressive, as someone who has bought some coins of British...
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