Robbery? :(
I'll buy anything I find interesting if the price is right. My first CWT I bought for $60 at a show with zero knowledge of CWTs (though I did...
I would think you could measure luster with the right lighting and sensor setup. Instead of tilting and rotating the coin under the light, have...
Paypal gives you 180 days, don't they? Not saying you shouldn't have filed, just trying to jog my memory.
Quite. But my real point was that even professionals who have decades of experience and have graded hundreds of thousands of coins still disagree.
Why couldn't there be one single copper planchet left at the bottom of a hopper?
We call those "varieties" around here. :p Get with the program! (j/k) I hate to revive this aspect of it, but one thing everyone has missed is...
That first one actually looks gradeable. Maybe high VF? Nice find!
Depends what your goal is. I think 10% is twice as much as I'd want to have. Ray Dalio's "all weather portfolio" has 7.5%.
Maybe not a show, but I've done it at a shop before I've purchased (with permission, of course!).
I agree with "looks Arabic," and it also looks like you have the coin pictured right side up, so that's a good start. :) Good luck!
If you look straight down from the L in LIBERTY, there's a spot near the rim at about 8:45 where it looks like the plating might have worn off....
True. I was guessing it was buried after it was discovered to be a fake because of the amount of wear on the coin. It looks like it's down to...
No, I got that. I just think the seller should be able to choose whether he or she needs protection from this kind of loss or not....
IIRC, there are a couple dates where even a 65 will cost quite a bit. Things have really changed since 25-30 years ago when nobody was paying...
Hmm. I don't have a half dime to compare it to, but it sure looks like a reasonable likeness of the genuine 1877 half dollar obverse I'm looking...
I think someone smooshed it.
Just to complicate things further... the coin I paid the most money for is not my rarest coin, but it is "a" favorite. I can't really pick out...
Contemporary counterfeit?
Right. My point was that since the act authorizing them was only passed in August 1964, that gives the Mint a fairly limited amount of time to...
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