I agree with the others about the reverse being the money side (very nice). The obverse is the more typical crusty original look you see on...
There is a chance that it went details (cleaned) but I'll say it got a straight grade at AU 53
Someone mixed up the images at NGC...I've seen it once or twice myself and it also made me pause.
PF 66 Cameo
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MS 62
Thank you for sharing an interesting medal and adding a great deal of information!
A nice mix of foreign! I saw that Netherlands 25 Gulden on eBay and gave it a thought but didn't bid. Glad you got it!
Illinois, reluctantly :p (home state) but it has Lincoln on it, so that is a plus :)...Arkansas is fairly nice too
For those wondering, the coin ended at $14,076.14...lower than the PCGS result but well above the $5k it was sitting at when the thread started....
Congrats on finishing a challenging album!
Nice; glad to see forum members helping each other!
To answer the original question, it is a combination of the toning, the TPG blessing, and the desire to have the top registry set that drives the...
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I'll go with your opinion on the grade. I've only graded one coin 4 times (nicely toned Franklin) and there were 3 different grades out of those...
I was on the right track with my thinking on coin #10 per one of the people that bid on it (he posted the below comment on the PCGS forum). [ATTACH]
MS 67 (not 5fs) ....I was going back and forth between 66 and 67 but decided to give the clean fields the benefit of doubt. The fused steps under...
Yep lots of cool coins (and they are still cool even if I didn't win any :p).
Complete guess of XF 45
There could be something to that but I have seen toned rims on straight graded coins too.
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