I'm going to say NT, but a highly juiced image. This color correction may look more like the coin in hand, but it's impossible to say without...
So it sounds like the lower tier TPG's (or at least ANACS) are grading more conservatively in order to become more reputable and increase their...
I have no objection to coin art, mind you, and that seller is not engaging in any subterfuge - the artificial toning is spelled out in large, bold...
Here's mine. :D [ATTACH]
Ethan, we already have our answer. This seller is a well-known coin doctor, and he says so himself. Read the entire description of the coin......
Yeah, that's a beauty all right. A+
For reasons unknown to me, the Crispus Vota bronzes can be found in some very high grades, more so than his other coins. They were obviously...
It's actually in a very decent grade for a Gallienus animal coin - full legends, some detail in the bust, nice round flan. Definitely worth eight...
Another great feather in your cap, VK. Well-done, sir. I can empathize completely with buying an expensive rarity that doesn't have much eye...
On the 76, you got the coin, the slab, the sticker, and the portrait. Now all you need is a laser show and some dancing girls. :)
Absolutely, totally, 100% doctored. I've bought a few coins like this, knowing they were AT'd, just to see them in hand, and I was always...
Great Choice, WL. I can't afford to collect these in gold, but the bronze medals are also beautiful and in my opinion present some of the finest...
Very impressive. Well-done!
Many of them were born that way. The reign of Gallienus wasn't exactly a high point in Roman minting quality. Here is my Rome mint version of the...
I used to be one, many moons ago, but those Liberty Seated varieties undid my efforts - especially the dollars.
The mint mark on the Gallienus is a star, one of the mint marks associated with the Asian mint. Attribution is RIC 5(a) 668, page 189.
If you wait long enough, everything is a sleeper. I'm sure a Roman citizen would be aghast at what I've paid for some of their common-as-dirt bronzes.
It's a very nice coin, btw. Ike's are the first big dollars I ever collected since I was a teenager when they were issued, and you could simply...
I like that very much.
It's an impressive presentation. I'm also working my way through them one at a time.
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