I have found great stuff in junk boxes in my 35 years of searching them.
Clearly a photo of the entire coin is needed to subjectively verify the AU grade and evaluate potential cleaning. As for the scratches, there is...
My Great Grandfather Joseph Farmer (born 1837) volunteered in the Kentucky Tenth Infantry (Union Army) formed in Lebanon, Kentucky in November...
A properly produced planchet (or any other adequate working metal) has satisfactory homogeneous metal properties. This coin planchet apparently...
Technical MS 65 +(toning 1)=MS 66 BN.
MS 62
Agree...an example of “buy the coin, not the slab”. I would not pay G4 money for the eBay coin.
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+1. We apparently have similar collecting interest. Cherry-picked many Large cents, including during early days of eBay.
I was at MS 65 with the usual weak strike, assuming no PVC issues...MS 66s with weak strike are a bit tough to find.
One of the first considerations for a new coin collector is identifying ‘problem coins’. These are coins which have a reduced value as a result...
DEFPMD...Definitely Post Mint Damage...Sorry.
Average or very slightly below average strike for an 1881-s. A few very minor scratches, with the spot near eagle’s wing. The obverse toning is a...
I was at MS 63 BN and MS 62 BN.... the only guesser who thought the 1906 was BN. The coin has too little red to be given a RB designation....
In general agreement with several others, the 1849-O is in that EF 45 to AU 50 range IMO.
A well circulated Indian Head cent in roughly 1954. Do not know the date, but probably still have it. My grandfather and grandmother owned a...
MS 63 BN MS 62 BN
AU 55 IMO. NGC grade AU 58 to MS 61...who knows.
My point was that since two people (reportedly) have similar coins, an explanation could be a reverse die break in which multiple coins are...
I am another Louisvillian by way of Lebanon, KY. and Columbus O-H-I-O. This dime’s path to the present is far more complicated than by travels to...
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