Crypto79 - how do you define "skin"? I assume Patina is skin - ? But of course not every coin has patina. So is patina one form of skin perhaps?
That, sir (Crypto79) is one heck of a great post! I will study it thoroughly and repeatedly. I love your examples and explanations and - it...
Another example - maybe more appropriate: also w CAC (sent it in myself last month). I suppose it might be silly to assume that CAC folks will...
Given that the "look" is subjective - here's an example of an old silver coin that in this picture I think it looks a little glossy - in others it...
Kind of difficult to compare it to Crypto79's pic, not to say it isn't a good picture, it's kind of dark and for all we know the pic I posted...
Tell me more. How do you know?
Oops - I started to reply to the question "where is the mint-mark". I see others have answered it thoroughly - no mint mark. Valid research has...
Yeah, it's priced way above the standard 1840's - Noho and Philly. But it had a pretty low mintage and PCGS estimates 400 survivors. Pretty low...
NGC calls it (O) medium letters. PCGS calls it (O) reverse of 38. Thanks for posting the description, Insider. I should have done that! As I...
xf40 - pretty hard to find. An Early New Orleans mintage. Weak obverse strike perhaps around Liberty's head. What do you think? Original...
My bad on that one - the 2000 survival rate - turns out that the estimate of surviving small date 1820's. Their estimate for large date survivors...
Wait a minute - I saw a 64 PR67 go for $29 on ebay yesterday? What....... the.......? Oh, but it wasn't a D. Weird coin.
And - a quick check of 1821 pennies - a non-hoard year - shows double the survival rate (even though 1820 was a high mintage year) and almost no...
Interesting point and I'm sure that the majority haven't been slabbed - however, would you deny that certification percentages aren't at a least a...
From what I gather - around here and other places where it's discussed, crackouts seem most common in MS and maybe AU grades. I once cracked an...
Further muddle. Ironically, PCGS estimates 2000 coins surviving and only 50 of those over ms60. Apparently this bears no relationship to the...
What you say is true I'm sure, but certified small dates are pretty unusual in comparison to large dates. There do seem to be plenty of raw ones...
SuperDave - thanks, I noticed that there are very few small date 1820's for sale right now on the most common lists. Ii found one website that...
Ok. Thank you for taking the time to check that out. I looked up the Randall Hoard. No wonder there are so many mint state copper coins from...
Excellent - kind of what I was thinking. Since I know so little about early copper, and you and others have helped me make some good decisions...
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