That was a nice unintentional cherrypick!
PS- I'd chip in something for The Cause if there is to be a "bake sale".
Eat your heart out, Eagle Eye Photo Seal and CAC beans! LOL
Brazil, 1820. Note the crazy, blundered overdate and wacky looking numerals. And that exhausts my supply of Brazilian coins off the old Holey...
I think it's on the coin.
Rock on, TonedGoldDude. You know I like your stuff. That Indian at the top is sweet.
Didn't hurt that I bought this one from somebody who knew how to capture good photos of it. That is hugely important to me now; much more in the...
There are certainly worse places to be than being a few points more conservative than PCGS. That happens to me a bit more often with World coins...
It's a bit hazy but not awful. I don't love it, but I don't hate it, either. In the poll, I went straight-down-the-middle-neutral on this one....
I actually don't recall if there was die polish there, scuffs in the plastic, or both.
Nope. Came from Philly. As to the strike, I'll defer to the opinion of the copper specialists. It might be a litte bit soft, but didn't look...
I actually agree. On both counts. It was indeed a nice piece, but I too was of a F15 opinion (the grade, not the fighter jet. LOL)
PS- @Aethelred still lives in that neck of the woods, and I believe he and his coworkers have had one or two of these walk into their shop, so...
Nice find. I used to live in Western NC near where these were made. As you can imagine, that spiced up my daydreams when I went out detecting....
It initially looked weird to me, too, like a fingerprint, but specialists told me that's a normal characteristic of the variety. I have since...
Admittedly, I'd place it as being 5 points overgraded, myself, but not so much that I'd really disagree with the labeled grade. Regardless, it...
Cleaned that one may be (a tad whizzed, perhaps?) but it's still quite decent looking. In my experience, while Peace dollars do display the...
Blessedly, no. Had my weekly quota of them two nights earlier.
Nice one! Brazil, 1822. [IMG]
The little built-in "spoiler" button feature on the polls here is cool. Had never used it before. I was having a bit of poll fun in the wee...
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