No, I hate to see nice coins on this site. Keep 'em coming.
G-6 Details, Environmental Damage/Corrosion. Decent coin especially for this series 1808-14 where the planchet material was poor. Granularity is...
I'm edging out on the limb on this one but I'm calling it MS-63. The coin is obviously struck from tired dies - stars and legends drawn to rim,...
I'm not going to pretend to any special knowledge but I think the general law that prohibited a design change in less than 25 years was in...
Absolutely. Unless the two coins are side by side, most people cannot detect that small size differential. At least I couldn't and maybe I'm...
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The 1853s are pretty notorious for having weak strike issues but also many coins are fully struck with sharp details and dentils. The speculation...
You'd think if they were going to all this trouble they'd at least make an effort to use a motto reverse. It's really insulting they think we're...
Pretty small safe if you can only stack 8 high since there's no reason why you couldn't stack them 20 or 30 high, except for stability. I went to...
I always thought "artificial intelligence" was when you thought you knew something but you really didn't. Is ChatGPT4 living up/down to my...
Agreed, but not by a huge margin.
I did not say what the coin is. The OP stated it was a 1795 with a reeded edge. There is only one die marriage dated 1795 with a reeded edge and...
Well, if you have a genuine 1795 reeded edge large cent then you have something pretty special. The last reference I have for rarity on this S-79...
I was going to opine AU-53 but the reveal beat me to it. My hindsight is always 20/20! But I wanted to say that I really love this coin.
OP's coin is a solid VG-10 by EAC standards which are stricter on sharpness grade than the TPGs. I believe NGC should have graded the coin F-12....
VF-20.
The generally accepted term for these are "adjustment marks". In the early days of the US Mint, quality control often lacked a certain expertise...
Here's one that anyone would say is terminally toned. But underneath all that dark toning is a tremendous glossy steel reflection that my photos...
Thanks for posting this. Even though I lived in Canada for two years (1960-62), I never noticed until now that the inside of the rim is a polygon...
@Cannonball, cool finds. It doesn't matter if they are genuine or contemporary counterfeits - both are collectible although as @lordmarcovan...
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