Those are nice coins and thanks for sharing the technique - the photos look good to me. I too have difficulty with shooting old copper so I'll...
Congratulations on your graduation and the lovely vista ahead of you. Nice coins and it's nice to see students and teachers still having personal...
Nice coin. I like it.
My local coin club uses these donations at our table at our and other coin shows as give-aways to possible YNs. Can't wait until we can get back...
Never lost a coin but did mis-place a child once. Survived that but only because the wife was complicit. Eventually found the boy in the church...
This coin should straight-grade. The adjustment marks are just that and not a cause for rejection since they are mint-made. The rim bumps are...
An editorial in the August, 2020 CDN Publishing "The CAC Rare Coin Market Review" discusses the increase in value of CAC coins and what appears to...
Wow, out of about 14 responses only one actually addressed my original question. Thanks @dddd. I guess just mentioning CAC is like touching the...
So, DLRC is instituting a new feature to show coins more dynamically. Here is the link to their announcement:...
After seeing the video, my opinion of the coin has risen and the likelihood of having been improperly cleaned has gone down. My original answer...
Jump in, the water's fine. Ignore those fins, they're probably porpoises. Seriously, coin grading and evaluation is subjective so there will...
I won an eBay auction Sunday night. I paid Monday at noon and the coin shipped from California that day. It is arriving today. This is the same...
The "broken S" is a well-known die variety and has nothing to do with the wear versus strike topic that this thread has evolved into. If you go...
Many of us enjoy playing the "To CAC or Not to CAC" game thread. It is fun and educational. We all know that CAC awards a green bean for a coin...
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OK, the '75-S is a pretty common date/mm coin. This one looks to be a weak strike obverse with a fairly strong strike reverse. You can tell the...
An old cleaning and nicely retoned. Graded 40 is conservative. I would say a gold bean except for the old cleaning so I'll say it got a green bean.
I agree. The coin clearly show luster breaks (and a bit of more serious wear) on all of the high points. Clearly at best about a AU-53, IMO....
Nothing about it sets off alarm bells for me. You may want to try to match up your coin to one of these: http://varslab.com/fugio.html At $200,...
I buy on eBay from known dealers and auctions only.
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