With terror and much bleating, I imagine. Also, rolling over in graves?
AU-58 here. The luster paired with the general weak strikes of these means it may even grade a touch higher.
Looks questionable to me.
If it was graffiti, wouldn't it spell something or form some kind of pattern? I thought that was the line between bag marks (random /...
The Philippines were part of the US from 1898-1945. US minted coins circulated there from 1903-1945 (and probably took a while to be...
After examining the coin in hand, I can assure you that I saw no other marks that might be called graffiti. I guess my question boils down to...
Here's a closeup that I took trying to highlight the area around the chin.
The grade on the slab is "Genuine - Graffiti, AU details" I do not see any graffiti on the coin, but there are some serious marks at 7:00, just...
NT I also was of the opinion that slabs are relatively air tight. However, plastic is porous, so even if they are acoustically sealed 100%, I...
I've had a good experience with ANACs on some rarer/obscure items (a proof 1908 US Philippines Centavo & USS California Launching medal HK324) but...
I recently purchased this 1854 $3 in a PCGS slab. I believe that it might be undergraded, but I'd like to get a few opinions about what the grade...
During the second world war, we also minted coins for Australia, the Dutch East Indies, and a few other allies (occupied and unoccupied) that I'm...
The 1944 2 Franc coin for liberated Belgium was minted on unused planchets from "steel pennies": https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces3103.html
Update to add - I learned that Philip Kerr passed in 2018, so there likely wont be any more of his Bernie Gunther books coming. :oops:
2012 had a different version of Saint George slaying the dragon. Mintage was 250,000 + 5,000 in proof for KM1207. What do you make of the...
The same 4th Portrait obverse
A one year only issue of this pattern with St George slaying the dragon.
Here's a piece I'll call #5: The Cyrillic numeral that looks a little like a trident seems to be a 700, indicating that this was a Peter the...
Here's a piece I'll call #4: The Cyrillic numeral similar to a lowercase letter "a" is a 1, which suggests to me it was minted in the first year...
Here's a piece I'll call #3. This one's quite a bit darker and broader struck than most of the other pieces I've seen. The two characters I see...
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