It is lovely and very intricate on the non-portrait side (don't know which is obverse or reverse on this coin). What is it?
OK, I guess I'm up. Here's a 1893 Isabella Commemorative Quarter, NGC MS-64. What do you think? Bean or no-bean? [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Ah, reliving the follys/follies of our youth! It's a wonder you and I survived those days. Congratulations on your contributions here. Here's...
Good on ya, mate! It's not always all about the money.
On the "free at the curb" topic: I was cleaning out the garage and had three half-full 5-gallon buckets of latex paint left over from a home...
Not many, if any, like that. Neat.
I'm ready to go when I get to the front of the line.
It's totally a genuine mint error. It fell on the floor, picked up by the robotic floor sweeper, dumped into the remelt bin, fell out of the bin...
A pretty nice specimen for the 1924-D. I have no reputation to lose in this game, so here goes: I'm saying no to the bean for the following...
I am flabbergasted by the Merc failing to even get a green. I understand my wife's cats better than I understand CAC.
I'm giving it a gold. I think I see some rubs on obverse and reverse but not enough to make it a 55 under current standards. So, a 58+. I'm...
There are wiser and more-experienced collectors on this forum that could well have better or more accurate opinions than mine on this topic, but...
H'mm, I'm going no bean.
I called it 64 and it appears to be struck on a cent planchet but I have a couple of questions I can't reconcile with what I'm seeing. The...
I've not heard the term "buffed" used as any kind of generally-accepted term for cleaning. If it was whizzed, you'd think that would be the term...
@physics-fan3.14, I have copied the obverse photo below with some circles. Are these the splotches being referred to? If not, what is the...
I absolutely agree with this point of view but I think the cows have left the barn. No matter how much we might prefer it to be this way, there...
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Here's the way I look at it: My price at auction including BP and shipping was exactly Greysheet for MS-62 and typical of similarly graded pieces...
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