This post is partly a vent and mostly a request for help in understanding. I just got back a submission from one of the two top TPGs and this...
That is true. Due to the typical weak reverse strike, any wear there makes the coin looks more worn that it really is. But there is clearly a...
Agree. I think this is a solid attribution. I have the O-116 as a R-4 and the O-129 as a R-5. This from the Fifth Edition of Parsley.
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Yes, on occasion. Personal transactions. The club also has an auction at each meeting. We also have members who are either part-time or...
The coin was previously in a PCGS holder graded MS-66+. I saw it in that holder earlier this year. So it crossed at the same grade. No, I did...
Just now arrived in the mail. It's graded AU-50 and is actually better looking in hand than in the CACG photo. Almost no chatter or dings and...
At my Local Coin Club last night and a fellow member, a high-end US Type Set collector, pulled out this beauty. It's a CACG MS-66+ and just...
Maybe I missed the gist of your question. If it's why is an 85-O going for over $400 in a slabbed GSA holder when Greysheet says a regular...
What's the question? Too high or too low in your thinking? Greysheet lists the wholesale price of a 85-O at $450 in MS-64. The CDN CPG retail...
Why would a coin album for Barber quarters, a series that ended in 1916, only be labeled up to 1904? Maybe because it was produced in 1904?...
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I'll be odd man out and say 63 but also FSB.
The die failure described in the OP is typically called a "die chip". The term "die break" is more general and all-inclusive and can also include...
That's a nice AU-58.
Picked this up off eBay yesterday. It's unremarkable, only a R-1 coin, except that it's a late die state of the LM-1.3 die marriage. That cud on...
I have several like that, some cocked at pretty severe angles. IIRC, these are all in PCGS holders. These are all small coins, half dimes and...
OK, this is probably a nit and if so I'm sure I'll be called out on it. But I find this irritating and in the great American tradition of sharing...
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