I agree that this is true, but if we're going to have grading standards, shouldn't they be standard? Just because there seem to be a lot of 1881-S...
Not struck through a die cap.
At the risk of offending someone who thinks edge lettering is off-topic, you have to wonder why the edges of the first cents and half cents were...
This is true, but the TPGs STILL do not understand early copper. Nor, I think, do they care to. There's an awful lot of modern stuff still in...
I agree on the EF sharpness. The waviness in the field in front of the face is characteristic of the variety. It looks like the planchet might...
This is my favorite, because the Chains were first, and they are the only obverses that were completely, individually hand engraved. History and...
Concur with struck-through.
With early copper, it is often just fine to collect coins with some damage; some are too rare to collect any other way. These were the money of...
Its a very common variety. There is significant damage. I’d pass unless at a very low price.
The existence of this coin absolutely proves that the moon landing was faked by numismatists in Area 51, shortly before they framed Lee Harvey Oswald.
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I use mine as a coaster.
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Sheldon 59 based on the date position and the cracks.
It would help to see the actual coin.
Definitely not better than F-VF, and it is damaged. Looks like traces of the mount in a slab on the rims.
I generally, but not always, use two Ott lights. The lighting setup varies with the coin being photographed. There is not one lighting arrangement...
Any modern digital camera can take good coin photos. The key is to use proper lighting.
Show us the edge. It should be very straight and sharp.
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