It's quite easy, really (tongue-in-cheek) . . . you just identify those who lack the ambition to cart their coins off to the supermarket, and...
Acid.
I'll have to check my records to see if it's the same coin.
This could well be a coin I sold several years back. I also was in awe of the fact that it was so well centered . . . and it also was in an ANACS...
This is true. While the concentration drops with time, some will always remain as long as the holders are not chemically destroyed by a reaction...
Spanish, and it doesn't. Then again, I don't collect ancients or foreign.
Cool coin . . .
The disappointment is understandable, but so is the net grading which, by the way, I believe is for poor strike, and not for the mark at the "A".
In my opinion, the half eagle lacks the mint luster and detail retained by the quarter eagle.
The 1913 $2.50
@Paddy54 . . . I suggest you grade the first and not the second. - Mike
For a nice looking 1857-S, it's unlikely that you paid too much. More likely, you paid what it's worth, and simply feel like it was too much.
Wish I could examine it in person but, absent that opportunity, I'm going a bit further than before . . . AU50 . . . maybe even 53.
Careful . . . we don't know the man. Unless you do, it might be more appropriate to write, "The guy makes his entire persona out AS being a big...
I think we can be pretty certain some back door negotiation of the FVF took place before this got listed. . . . whoops, just read this after...
I won't tell you which coins but, even buying for resale, I'd eagerly pay more than PCGS prices for some coins.
Don' herchyerself.
And I thought you were purist enough that you'd own no slabs!
You mean you've never seen a dealer dismissively throw a slabbed coin clunking onto a table (as if to say "I couldn't care less about this piece...
Another take on your problem . . . I've been buying a lot of PCGS slabbed coins on eBay recently and many of these are all scratched up (the...
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