…keep in mind that if a counterfeit item gets involved with legal actions the item must be kept as evidence until the evidential value expires....
Quick check at PCGS Photograde it’s F12-F15. edit to add: NumisMedia FMV lists this date/F12 at $1,380.00.
…and it makes one mellow… In 1909 gold was $20.67 per troy oz., making the 1 dwt cost $1.03 USD back then. Today, at (currently) $4,011.30 per...
Nice video report, it looks like you had a ton of fun on your experiment. I especially liked you sticking to your own rules and not cashing out...
Yeah, I wasn’t being critical of you since many turn of the 19th century coins manifest like this.
Looks XF40 or so to me. Mottled toning but no blatant damage, does look cleaned.
Navigate to this post on Coin Talk (by @Lehigh96 on March 19, 2009): The FS (Full Step) Designation for Jefferson Nickels Defined...
They’re verifying your application. As part of that process an action called “server-side validation” occurs. During this process, all of the...
I took a real good, slow look at it and before I saw your guess/assessment I came up with the same grade…AU50. I almost said AU53, but the...
I agree the TPGs need to be a better partner in culling counterfeits, but authentication is already an element of their business models. Their...
It looks very much like a “strike through”. A piece of wire or similar got caught between the coin and the die during strike. If authentic it is...
As part of a 5-coin submission to ANACS in 2015, I had a 1934 Washington quarter with an odd large lump next to IGWT that I thought was an error....
I have personally seen this smushed, melty look produced by heat, and personally own the dime where both clad layers were dissolved by acid...
Damaged by extreme heat…or partially immersed in an acidic solution…or both.
That’s a scratch on the quarter reverse. The IGWT looks like MD, and the rest is not clear enough to say except the dime is a poor one and no...
I’m onboard!…it would be my first Hungarian coin and my third-oldest. ( I have a Alex. the Gr./336BC tetradrachm and an AR Constantine) Special...
I’ll enter on behalf of @green18 …who may be devilish at times, but if you read his posts you’ll find he is a mighty fine fellow. I choose the...
I tried selling mine 6 years ago but got no traction. Maybe with the gold run-up I might now get an offer. However, since they are restrikes and...
You’re right. It is troy oz. Serves me right for using an AI generated answer. edit to add: Makes it 399.5833 troy ounces. Revised guess is...
All of you guys are seeing a problem when there isn’t one, the solution is simple: Buy the new safe and tell your wife it was the only way to...
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