If you are so adamant that it is a proof, send it in to PCGS and wait for their opinion. You won’t be able to sell this coin as a matte proof...
Thank you for the comments everyone. Really cool piece regardless of value. Now I know what the reverse is on old Chinese coins.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] I attended a coin show several months ago and bought this along with a bunch of other Chinese coins, German States, etc for...
Visited the LCS yesterday and looked through the world coin bin. 15¢ per coin. Not much of note was found, except for a few tokens and this little...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] This is not my first Spanish Empire real by any means but it is the first of this specific design type. Paid $20 US today at my...
It was a 2003. It later developed a carbon spot and was downgraded to 69. Silver bullion can develop milk spots from the washing process used at...
Toning, although pretty, tends to hide flaws. This coin has chatter in the reverse fields, but there is also a fairly big hit on the cheek that...
I apologize for my “nicest AU I’ve ever seen” comment earlier. It was certainly rather ignorant given the original purpose of the thread, to just...
Yeah imrich’s coin is the opposite of FSB.
Interesting... the toning surrounding the winged Liberty head is blue, not black like terminal toning usually is. Can dipping a coin turn black...
If this is an AU, it's the nicest AU I've ever seen.
They are not scratches. Thank you for reminding me.
This is a coin that I have had for a while. I bought it out of a junk silver bin for $1.30. It has strong luster (the reverse toning mutes the...
[ATTACH] Closer pic of the date, sorry I don’t have acetone right now. The repunching is visible on the 1, 8, and 5 of the date.
I apologize, as I have missed that part of your post. I don’t think I know better than Rick Snow, but I just think his estimate seems oddly low...
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F283527464115 Another Ebay link I’m gonna drop. Won’t buy the...
Most of you are correct. It is 1859 Snow-1 RPD-001! Thoughts on grade?
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Several days ago I was browsing Ebay as usual. I was looking through 1859 IHCs, saw this one, and almost immediately bought...
I was looking around for (fairly inexpensive) pre-1500 dated coins. Turns out some pieces from Brabant are available on MA-Shops for under 100...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] I bought this about a year ago at a coin show out of the $10 ancient/medieval pick bin at one of the tables. It is identifiable...
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