Looking at it again you could be right. It could be lighting of higher points I am mistaking for wear.
Not knowing the series, I would guess AU50-53. Very interesting coin.
Um, yeah. My wife would probably like your approach.... No greater strategy, no selling. I tell myself that there are many different mints, many...
Given the prevalance of them in auctions recently, I am assuming a large hoard of "middle period" Sasanian pieces were found. There has been just...
As many of you know, I collect many Central Asian coins. I like coins from the Persian empire, (Achaemenids, Parthians, Sassanians). I also love...
Every time I think of pigs, I think of my step mother, (not the way you are thinking). She had quite a large collection of pigs. I asked her one...
Heck of a coin for the price of a couple of quick lunches. :)
Interesting collection. I hadn't thought about pigs much on ancients. Available, yes, but not overly common. For animals, I would have four...
I am not going to wager a guess. I find it very difficult to grade these to begin with, and with photos only and dark toning I would be simply...
Good point. Almost no one takes back coins anymore. Consumers are given change, then if they want to deposit them back either have to get ripped...
I would be cleaned AU55 as well. No coin 150 years old will be that blast white. Also, look at the streaky toning on the obverse. This is usually...
If you have time and like looking at coins, (who doesn't), I highly suggest spending hours looking at good ancient coin auctions. Train your eye...
Logic+government+benefitting citizens? Surely you haven't seen our government operate the last 40 years......
Not me, though I would be a logical suspect if the terms coins+hoarding were spoken together. :)
Wow, I guess I am out of line if Lehigh thinks a 67.
All Canadian coins in the US have a massively lower base of buyers. Always has been true, at least last 40 years.
I was thinking he meant a round mount that can be tightened once the coin is put inside. Someone placed the coin in, then overtightened it and it...
I would be more around a 62. Many marks, not a lot of luster. No St Gaudens is bad to own, just being real in my grading OP.
I don't see why its not a PF69.
What I see is an unusual concave edge. Normal striking in a collar would not allow this, as the collar would fill normally under pressure. Short...
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