Tom, do you mean that it was relatively recently dipped and then ARTIFICIALLY retoned, or dipped >100 years ago, and then naturally retoned over...
That's about what I was thinking, too.
Trying to decide what to offer.
It's an auction, reserve not stated, no bids yet.
Ok, but is the white stuff corrosive? If you look at the base of the arrows and zoom in, there is a clump of it that looks fuzzy, sort of like...
And, what would NCS be able to do for this coin, in your opinion?
Yes, the more I look at it, it is the reverse that seems weird, with odd colors, and that white gunk. Net grading would explain that. I'm worried...
Unfortunately, Toughcoins, I won't get a chance to see it in hand. I have only photos to go by.
Ahh, thanks Conder101. I was hoping you would comment. If those were the good days of ANACS, then presumably the coin was in fact problem-free at...
This slab is probably late '90's vintage, I'm thinking. Wasn't ANACS quite good back then? If so, then probably the coin did not look obviously...
Thanks , Toughcoins; Well, the cleaning question has me confused, since I've seen similarly toned coins in problem-free slabs. On these early...
Yeah, I read the thread about restoring artificially toned coins. So there is hope, even if it is AT. Of course, AT often hides something, as that...
If I owned this coin, I would have crossed it to PCGS long ago. I wonder if the seller has tried and failed to cross it, due to the white gunk,...
Here is a much larger pic of the reverse, for a good view of the white gunk.[ATTACH]
I guess I'm more worried about the white gunk on the reverse than I am about the toning. Does anyone recognize what that is? This appears to be...
My first post. I'm thinking of buying this coin. It'll be my first bust dollar. ANACS EF 40. I think it's undergraded. But I'm wondering if...
I was looking to start collecting capped bust halves. I'm a newbie, but when I saw GSC's collection of 1820's CBH's I got suspicious. They have a...
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