That's the reason I suspected it wasn't silver sulfide, which rarely changes color during the removal process with dip. It either gets stripped,...
You only "overpaid" by certain definitions of the term. This issue increases by a full order of magnitude into the next grade... This coin, with...
They will tone last, since they're already somewhat "protected" by the color still visible. The rest of the coin is in danger of toning suddenly...
Crude, but fascinating. I'd be pretty pleased to come across such a piece. :)
I thought about a much more in-depth reply, and then realized that someone who was going to end up good at detecting counterfeits would be able to...
If you walk into a retail store and see the right item with an erroneously-low price, do you insist that they charge you full price for that item?...
Experience.
You're talking about metals which weren't even discovered until the late Nineteenth Century, and are extremely expensive to refine.
Funny how that happens, isn't it? :D Now, go out and obtain a true DMPL Morgan (nice ones can be had for $150 in the common years) and see what...
If you can broker it through Mr. Grellman (or one of the other bigtime copper guys), slabbing will not be necessary. Early copper collectors...
It's too cool for school, but I'm not sure I like it as much as slabbed MS64 money. :)
The first thing you should do is give your coin its' own thread, rather than dumping it into another person's thread about an entirely different...
AU and dipped with a near-100% certainty. Look around the letters UNUM, to see what the coin used to look like. Note, at least the vertical lines...
Oooh, an added-value "label error!"
A "number of people" don't seem to understand that 10% is not an acceptable margin for anyone smaller and having a slower inventory turn time than...
Wow. That is an absolutely "turn and walk away slowly and carefully" auction description....
Automatic bidding; somebody had a high bid set and someone else progressively forced more of that bid to be invoked by software. At some point...
An individual who throws a 4-digit sum of money at something they cannot make absolute determination about on their own skills deserves what they get.
Man, they're even planting fakes in the ground these days. :P
I would cheerfully have bid that much for that coin. There are known, unique, and easily-found die markers exclusive to the Proof issue of 1884,...
Separate names with a comma.
