Use VerdiCare ONLY if you want to use something on your coins that you don’t understand. Their formula is not given, even on the MSDS. If you want...
Very nice write up.
In early copper, we call that a double profile or chatter strike.
I’ll be there. Some of the time, at least, at the Early American Coppers table.
I have actually observed the Mint striking proof coins. They are handled with gloves and individually inspected under a glass. It seems that must...
Very interesting coin, Jack. I've been following the discussion of this one.
PCGS Photograde online is handy. You can have it with you on your phone. Most of the images are quite good and reasonable for the grade. The...
We see a lot of laminations on early copper.
I agree with Lord M. It looks like a lamination to me.
The thought that ten million of the things have been slabbed by a single company made me go to their website to see what this is all about. As of...
Cracked out an ICG 65 Morgan, purchased at 62-63 money, kept it for a while, and finally sent it to PCGS. It came back 65.
Looks like a nice Fine to me.
EF details. Cleaned.
N = Howard R. Newcomb, who wrote a book on varieties of middle and late date large cents. N-2 means the second variety of the year. R-2 = rarity...
Nice coin, and cuds always make early coppers even more interesting.
Of course, those copper coins without edge markings were underweight, and the people stopped accepting them, causing the coppers panic of 1789....
The probable reason for the edge devices was that the copper panic resulting from lots of underweight counterfeits (among other things) was in...
Struck, IMO.
63
At the risk of being an iconoclast, there's a lot that the TPGs took from silver dollar grading that makes no sense. Number 1: the notion that a...
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