VF details - environmental damage
I meant to authenticate the chops; with the US Trade Dollars there is likely more information out there but with other coins that were less...
MS 63 ....a few too many hits to go higher in my opinion ....and I'll guess older PCI holder
Maybe scratched? If so, it could be the two areas inside my circles: [ATTACH]
MS 64
Update: someone bought the coin that was on eBay while I was debating it-so that makes the choice to wait (and see if another shows up for less)...
It is an odd policy that only US Trade Dollars can straight grade-and even then, only at PCGS. Maybe they just aren't confident enough that they...
AU Details Chopmarked ...unfortunately PCGS and NGC do not give straight grades to world chop marked coins (PCGS does only for US Trade Dollars;...
It's a 62+ .....I could see it as a 63 but 62 is more technically accurate; you can argue the plus is there for the color or for it being close to...
Please guess the grade of this 1878 Morgan. (photo courtesy of PCGS) [IMG]
MS 66
This one is now part of the @lordmarcovan eclectic hundred. (1904) Stuttgart City Klippe [IMG] A detailed city view of Stuttgart and a message...
MS 65 FBL
I was happy to send that owl your way and always enjoy seeing one of my former items as a part of your eclectic collection! I still have one as...
That is a good point. Continuing to buy just to fill "holes" in a set does not make sense. I'm not at the point of just wanting to keep the set up...
I hear you and respect that! If one can afford it and enjoys the coins, this is the strategy to follow. :)
Technically that can be true but cost always creeps in. Plus it's harder when you remember (purchase) prices that could sometimes be half of the...
Decisions....decisions....as some may recall from my many threads, I have a few sets going of coins from Kazakhstan. One involves totem animals...
I'm not sure I fully understood the question but if the implication is would one have a talk with a coin dealer about a coin being overgraded...
You can see from the visible part of the insert that it is not a rattler but a more modern generation of PCGS holder. I do think it could have...
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