Nice 1795 half. I don't think the old cleaning and hairlines are particularly troublesome as I pretty expect some problems in early circulated...
That's the best I can do with only the photographs, which are not bad, but with the coin in hand you can adjust the light and contrast and perhaps...
Recent pick-up at FUN last month. [ATTACH]
I know what you mean. I collect the CBHDs by die marriage and I see them best for attribution purposes from photographs. I have a friend who's a...
Using the same reference as you, the obverse matches 2. The reverse is missing some diagnostics but nothing I can see belies a G attribution....
Don't think it's the LM-10 because I can't see any doubling of the date's 1 at the top.
Some of the diagnostics are gone but this looks to me like the LM-3, an R-2 coin. Obverse is 3, Reverse is C. What I could see to attribute is...
The folder is destroyed but the coins may not be. IN order to prevent any further deterioration of the coins from the holder and the staples...
If things proceed as usual, you will be contacted. IIRC, when I joined I got a snail mail welcoming me and eventually the club magazine started...
I downloaded the photos so I could blow them up to try to see the coin better, but the photos are poorly lit and out of focus. Nevertheless, I am...
An intervention is required!
@Seascape , if you haven't considered joining the Colonial Coin Collectors Club (C4), you might to give it a thought. They have a great club...
I agree that the OP coin should have been in a Details holder. It is clearly graffitied (if such a word exists!). Here's another graffitied coin...
Another of my favorites, the 1853 No Arrows. Just 95,000 minted. This was the plate coin for Kamal Ahwash's book. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
A details coin but one of my favorites. Interestingly, I have recently seen equivalently scratched coins in PCGS and NGC holders that were...
I see a lot of these early gold quarter and half eagles with very generous grading. But even though this is an otherwise nice coin (compared to...
Here's another example where the spot crossing the cap, LIBERTY and into the curls did not affect the grading. This 1835 half cent is from my...
As a general rule, those spots will detract from the price and may detract from the grade given by a TPG. Most collectors find the spots...
The drawing of the outside star points to the rim is a classic sign of a worn die.
Thanks Steve. I was too embarrassed to ask.
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