FYI, Legend had a long history of selling coins for a premium prior to the introduction of the CAC. That kind of takes the legs out from under...
Nice coin!
QT at best, with a decidedly AT lean.
Whoops! Sorry about that. :) Nice photo, BTW.
Ouch! :D
The only time I use cotton gloves is to insert coins in danscos. I have gone away from them in favor of very clean fingers and a felt pad...
In general, the newer the coin the less accurate the price guide. PCGS estimates prices based on retail transactions with dealers (think on the...
p.s. FWIW, that's an 1842 small date -- a $1000 coin in 63bn. $50 for a cleaned example really isn't a bad price, IMO.
:) My posts just about never come out right the first time. Sometimes I think my fingers are faster than my brain. lol
If you are patient, I think you can do better than that coin. It's nice, but there are much nicer ones to be had. As others have mentioned,...
This thread makes me miss Lehigh. :(
I think you will find no matter how many coin photos you take that balancing luster and color is the single biggest challenge in coin photography...
The coin has been dipped in one of any number of substances and has started to retone. The darker areas are where the toning turned into...
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My first reaction was that you had posted this coin before. It looks familiar. I guessed 55.
The above post by Todd is worth reviewing, and virtually every good coin photographer I know has a similar workflow. Said a bit differently, if...
It sounds like you have a white balance problem, that you are correcting in post processing. Get the white balance right the first time and you...
How do you know this? To be a bit more blunt, I don't believe you. Phil has a huge advantage in that he has the coin raw when he takes...
Well known seller of toned coins. I would, personally, question what the coin looks like in-hand, as this seller, how should I say this, tends to...
PCGS graded the coin AU 55. That's right, it went down one grade from it's old 58 slab. Now, there a few things that worried me about this coin....
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