NGC makes it a point to add....."or some other writing".....which can be considered illegible or nonspecific (as a catch-all). "Some other...
Wishful thinking! Stop looking for errors for 6-12 months and start reading all the other "reject threads".
Graffiti can be anything. It is not like "road rash" or a "vice job". It is just nonspecific damage.
I did enlarge it as much as the original image would allow, but it is still not good enough to tell what that mark is on the Peace dollar. I'm...
Would the graffiti on the Peace dollar be the unusual mark above TRVST and to the right of her hair? Can you give us a close-up of that area?
No! "Scratch and mark-free", a coin would grade somewhere in the neighborhood of MS68 or MS69. ~ Chris
Best wishes to you, @Roger W Burdette on your special day. ~ Chris
I ran a quick search on the Rockwell hardness test, and there were several threads but I didn't read them all. I chose the one below because it...
I remember reading those threads, but the suspected anomalies were raised if I recall.
Best wishes on your special day! ~ Chris
I thought the hardness tests were conducted on the die steel. If my understanding is correct, then the "blemishes" on the coins would be raised,...
Knowing the story behind SGS and Abon, I'm surprised those "MS68's" weren't attributed "7FS"! [ATTACH]
That is "Lincoln's Purse"!;)
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Like Fred suggests, they can occur almost anywhere. [ATTACH]
Maybe my eyes are just getting worse, but I don't see any underlying numbers.
Just because the coins have nicks, dings or bag marks doesn't mean that they aren't uncirculated. When I bought $50 bags of the 2004 Westward...
Is that a 2005-P, too? Have you compared them to the rest of the 1.4 billion dimes that were struck in Philly? Why do you think slight variations...
Welcome to the neighborhood, Michael! Yes, it appears to be a misaligned die. You can tell because the reverse is correctly centered.
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