Just as I suspected. It’s fine. The toning is natural, and the bad light in the first set of photos made it look too dark.
F12? No offense, but you need to either practice grading wheat cents or get your eyes checked. Here are the pictures in Photograde for F12. Look...
Looks natural to me. I suspect the coin looks better in better lighting and is not as dark as it appears.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth#Historicity
Pick anything about it. Literally everything is wrong. The style of the devices, the lettering, the fabric, everything.
Maybe? Keep in mind, the US is a country with a coronavirus issue, if not a full blown epidemic. As for precautions, IMO, the risk from handling...
Yeah, I get that, but I’d hate to see that Memorial cent lose its nice toning. There are a few others, like the three pence and the Canadian dime,...
That was my first thought as well. I wouldn’t clean it myself. As far as the coin itself goes, the horn silver detracts a little, but it still...
Love the display, but I’m not sure I’d put red copper in there and expect it to remain red.
3/4 do not reference dipping under “cleaned.” The fourth is Wikipedia, and it’s just plain wrong.
You are perfectly entitled to use words differently from the hobby at large. Just don't expect people to know what you're talking about if you do.
Sorry, not taking that bait. Your eyes and my eyes are irrelevant. You and I both know that "cleaned" in current hobby terminology means...
I wanted to come in and say "nope, you're wrong," but I went through eBay's listing policies and could not find anywhere it says you can't sell a...
Photos aren’t good enough to tell.
Counterfeit. See my post here:https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-very-neat-read-the-full-story-of-the-hofmann-lincoln-cent-mule.353547/ Doesn’t...
Thanks for the correction, Mike.
Considering melt is over $400, and you should be able to easily return it if it's not gold, I don't think I would have dithered at $475 if that...
Great coin and write up! Alas, I have not a single example of the victoriatus denomination, but it’s on my list... somewhere. :)
By that standard, my collection is mostly a size-unrestricted version of your eclectic box. I attach a lot more importance to something like your...
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