If he called that VF, I wonder what his AUs looked like! It is definitely overgraded at AU-58... 53 is more like what I'd call this one. No...
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All sorts of clubs and businesses produce tokens for advertising and such. You wouldn't make "coins" unless you are a blatant counterfeiter -...
I would try melting them and buying new ones.
I think this is absolutely the right approach. I know that I have sometimes sold a large number of coins from my collection to finance a single...
You have to vote in the poll above for your vote to count. Nobody has selected 62.
I voted 65, but on looking at it again I could see it going 66. There are enough significant marks on this coin (that you can't explain away with...
I wouldn't call it bisecting... yet. A hundred strikes later it is entirely possible that those cracks grew to become bisecting.
I like it better in your pictures, but it is too dark for my tastes. That deep purple fading to black is approaching terminal.... not my sorta...
I'd call it AU-55, and say that it is extremely attractive from those pictures. I'd be curious to see how the fields actually look (the luster is...
I really like the blue on the Philly.... too bad about the scratch.
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Yep, those are classic holders and well known to sometimes produce great toning. I've bought a few sets in those myself, even though it's not...
The blue color on this coin is due to a chemical reaction with contaminants.
You guys asked for copper, so let's grade copper! I will tell you that this coin is designated Brown, so I will not be asking for color...
It is a real shame that PCGS does not guarantee against PVC. I will say from experience that NGC does: I bought a few Moroccan coins which had...
No, that is rim damage.
Sorry for the delay in posting the next one. Heritage was down for a few days, and then there has been some stuff going on that has prevented me...
For doug it should be electrum, like the coins his pal Croesus made.
There is a DDO on the Apollo commem, both the business strike and proof versions. That's pretty cool, because you don't find DDOs very often on...
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