1900 Morgan. It was pretty beat up when I picked it up for melt. Has a look of antiqued steel. High points are shiny, and tarnish in the recesses.
At current melt, $2.18. JS is the initials of the designer of the Roosevelt dime, John R. Sinnock.
I would think there would be no effect because, as stated by TopCatCoin, people would hoard them. The same would happen if gold coins were...
I doubt a subjective process formed strictly on opinion, is pinpoint precise.
Die cracks are common. As for the date, looks like a large date to me.
You can post links to sources of information. That's allowed.
Here's some better images for comparison: [ATTACH] Small date [ATTACH] Large date
I wasn't either, but it is difficult to tell from those pics. It does look like my 70S large date though.
I started looking at firearms from the 1800s, specifically Civil War era on. It was challenging, and there is much to learn, which I have yet to...
If you hold a loupe to the lens of your camera and adjust your distance to focus in, and shoot the coin straight on rather than at an angle, it...
There's a reason why that doesn't happen with any amount of frequency. Because the U.S. Mint does not produce perfection with any amount of...
As long as you know what you're doing and how to spot a replica from an original.
First off, you're comparing coin grading to baseball umpires and how they call it at the plate. Apples to oranges as they are not the same....
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I hate to play devil's advocate, but!; there is no way you, nor anyone else for that matter, who could distinguish between a 70 and a 69 from...
It's too bad someone tried cleaning it. The reverse is excellent, IMO.
I'm not trying to discourage you in anyway K2, and I do remember you mentioning you were in your teens when you came here over a year ago. I...
No worries mate :thumb:
If you want to call a couple of dollars over what you're into it for.
But what you don't understand, is it only takes one side to be improperly cleaned for the TPG to give it a DETAILS label, and if the damage from...
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