In all honesty, you're going to need to find someone who specializes in classic French coinage and knows the market well to really be able to...
AU Details Cleaned (Columbian half) XF Details Cleaned (seated quarter)
Since this is in the Error Coins forum, I feel I should point out that varieties are not errors. An error is something unintended that happens to...
PMD (Plastic Mostly Deformed)
Of course, but I meant in the context of identifying what is or is not a flaw. If a flaw is defined as a feature on the coin produced without...
Absolutely for bust coinage, as some years did not have a pristine die state. This is especially true if you include varieties.
Yes, of course. You speak to original intent as if there is a common understanding of what that means. But it hasn't been defined. The production...
On the die sure. Is a centering dot on a coin a flaw? What if all known examples of an issue have a centering dot? Are there no unflawed examples...
A brilliant analogy. This, exactly. Ah, but there are lots of features on a coin that are not originally intended. How do you define original...
I see how you reach these conclusions based on the assumptions you are making, however, a die crack on a coin is not a flaw, and a flaw on a die...
I understand what you're saying. I just don't agree with you at all. A flaw on a planchet is unique to a coin. A flaw from a strikethrough is...
Definitely the ex King Farouk Hungarian 1868KB 4 Krajczar patterns in silver and gold.
The author of the latest Hungarian catalog died in 2010. His son finished his works in progress and published them in 2012, but has not kept them...
Many such coins have a verifiable provenance to a specific collection. I have coins with collector tags and notes dating back to the mid 19th...
Natural also.
I hear this argument brought up time and time again about how circulated coins have real history to them, as if somehow uncirculated coins of the...
I forgot to also mention the differences in dentils, since that is also somewhat compelling. The type of 1900 & 1906 has smaller, denser packed...
As you can watch him age from the late 1840s through 1916 on the coinage, some of the bust differences are very subtle. One of my favorite sets is...
In every catalog I've seen, not just Krause but Hungarian catalogs as well, the Hungarian 5 Korona (KM-488) is listed as one type 1900-1909,...
Thanks. I do a lot of metalwork, and the technique I use for slab cracking is very similar to riveting. So, results may vary depending on your...
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