Looks absolutely cleaned to me. There's no luster and the color dull.
My understanding was that the TPGs are more lenient with small scratches on early 19th century coins..
I would go with a green bean. The light rub on the obverse devices keep it from MS. The next question is would it grade AU 58. The nice toning...
But for how long? I have no problem with people spending their money on whatever trips their trigger. But the numbers of new labels seem to have...
The mint should stamp a strike sequence number on each coin. The coin with a number of "1" would probably be worth a fortune. There'd also be...
This!
The reason why toilet paper is so valuable now is that when one person sneezes in public, 100 people soil themselves.
That Barber half is worth at least half that.
I see (pun intended). Thanks for educating me on this.
I understand that. I was just saying that the star is NGCs way of saying the coin is exceptional for the grade; in this case MS 67. If NGC...
Gold bean on that Morgan. No way that it is a 61.
If it didn't get a star designation then it would probably get a green bean.
I'd definitely not buy gold right now. The market will eventually change like the wind and prices will come down.
It's a dime that was supposed to be a quarter; that's the error.
Since it's been two days since I posted the proof Lincoln I'll reveal that it did get a star by NGC. I agree with physics-fan3.14 that that...
This one was graded PR68 cameo by NGC. Did it star or not? [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Looking at the FS-101 and FS-102 examples in the Great Collections archive I don't think that yours matches either variety.
I guess an analogy in life could be: "do you use Charmin or do you use sandpaper?"
No FIP?:-)
Here are a couple links to the Great Collections archive for the two varieties....
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