Actually....Quadriga is the word in Italian for a quadriga. "Briosa" means lively or spirited, and it differentiates this design of the quadriga...
Fred13 -- beautiful example. Any idea why it's labeled as "rara" though? These aren't rare.
I always love when a thread gets to the point of Doug playing the victim. That's when I stop reading...so to the OP, if you have any further...
I added 29 horse coins to my main collection in 2014, bringing the total up to 233 certified coins. A few other things here and there, and all in...
Fourth Party "Graders" don't grade the coin at all. They either agree with the assigned grade by the TPG or they don't. Thus, I personally don't...
TPGs are companies who authenticate, grade, and slab coins. QA and CAC don't do those things -- they just put a sticker on an already graded...
They are not a TPG. They don't grade or encapsulate coins -- they just affix stickers based on whatever undocumented willy-nilly personal...
As I mentioned before, I know this coin (and the whole series of the 20,50, and 100 Franc) very well. I have looked at and owned many over the...
No worries. It said in that thread they thought sometime in 1997...I'm surprised it's that recent that they started doing the FBL thing.
I'll be sure to do any business I have with NGC on Thursday, before the circus starts on Friday. Not all publicity is good publicity. :yuck:
To answer your question, FBL was not used on rattlers. Check out this link. Google is a wonderful thing.
For a 1942 Philly WLH, that coin's nothing to write home about. I would personally be VERY upset if I purchased this coin in a PCGS MS65 holder...
You don't get it. I give up. Cheers.
I love how being honest makes one a negative Nancy. :D
Should we just make something up to answer this? The only way to answer that question would be to send it to the "Green Giant" factory and see if...
Funny though, the originally posted coin was from Luxembourg. The semantics of what the US Mint calls "die polishing" is irrelevant to the coin...
The lira needs some work to remove those green spots. It is a lovely coin, but I would be very surprised to see it in an MS67 graded holder at...
Maybe I'm seeing things, but the Drachma looks to be in a PCGS slab -- at least I think I can see a bit of the clear wide prongs holding the coin...
That was my point Doug. Strictly speaking, what you describe on business strike coins aren't called die polishing by the US mint. That's what...
You mentioned only 2 things in your original post -- die polish and post-mint-damage. You were clearly using the term die polish to mean all...
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