This is either real or a good fake. Where did you recover this from? It might help determine the likelihood of authenticity. The problem is that...
I'd check it against the 1945s to see if the spacing would suggest an alteration of the 4 to a 1. Oops! A few hours late.
I'll stick with AU55 with the reverse stronger.
Well I'm still high bidder at $500. I truly believe there should be upward net grading for coins like this. AU55/net MS63 doesn't bother me a bit.
I've fallen down on the job. I'd say it was an N-7.
[IMG] Does anyone recognize this countermark? It is on a 1797 Large Cent
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I think it's a technical AU50 which is superior to most MS 60 to MS 63 coins. This is why the circulated coins need a condition grade like the MS...
OK! I must do a Mia Culpa here. Looking at several higher grade specimens on the Heritage Archives produced this result: The photo interpretation...
What I'm trying to show is that Obverse 8 IS NOT a reworked Obverse 4, but a different obverse die which is almost identical, but not when you can...
I rest my case.
Here is the side by side for the mark beloe E for the S-216 and the S-221 Middle Die (reverse has CUD) [IMG]
I must apologize for creating some confusion. I swapped out the early and middle die states of the S-221 in my mind. The lovely brown specimen is...
This is back to Statement 1. There are two different obverses. This should cut through the noise and put the essential markups together so you...
I think this is a better picture of the S-216: [IMG]
Reread post 8 which was edited to add the closeup of S-216 which is definitely Obverse 4.
I don't know if you wrote this before or after I posted the pictures of the S-216 and the S-221 second die state, both of which show sufficient...
Next, and this is the more difficult to see, I will show the early die state S-221 shares a die scratch with Obverse 4. This is the early die...
First step is to show beyond reasonable doubt that the obverses are DIFFERENT! The following images are from this sight and no claim of ownership...
I was attributing coins on eBay and came across a S-221 and found something that I thought was BIG. Holmes Early state S-221 had the obverse of...
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