Obsession....
Proof to me, I don't see what is wrong with the rims, they look sharp enough, and the frosting is SUPERB !
Very nice coin...value ?
Nice owl tetradrachm !
Sorry, I meant if you buy a coin that was slabbed by and sent from...
Good for you ! Why Claudius and not JC or Nero ?
If I a coin has been harshly cleaned, there will be scratches all over it's surface and/or discolouration/excessive brightness without any lustre....
Nice coin....with some lovely lustre in the legends and around the portrait, I am thinking of getting one of those !
Oh, if only they had left washington off the coin instead of the edge. The coins would be so much more pretty !
I would give that coin maybe a top XF, look at the missing hair detail.
It is a real slab, the photography is just a bit odd.
It's a doubled date.
The first one has been corroded and then engraved with the long nose. The second one has been put on a disk sander for a couple of hours :(
Pennys have existed in England since the year 765 thank-you.
No, I think they are going to make a nice set when they have issued them all. I just don't want Nixon on them.
That toning doesn't look smooth enough to be natural.
When is the next dollar coin (I understand there are to be three each year) coming out ? Is it hounoring John Adams ??
Sell them to a coin dealer or have them auctioned. Ebay is just too unpredicatable.
Two years ago, I was given a 1797 copper twopence by my grandfather ( coin in F condition about $70 value). Last year I decided to buy an 1826...
Silver doesn't corrode. And that toning is not ugly.......it is beautiful. NNC is some random 3rd tier TPC so the coin is probably only AU-58 to...
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