The spot by the tail does not appear to be a milkspot. It appears to have a speck of foreign material on the coin, probably organic, and it has...
No argument from me on that. You must be pretty isolated because it has been commonly used for years. How about an opinion from some of the rest...
Happens after the blank is punched. An area of one of the clad layers isn't properly bonded to the copper core and after the blank is punched the...
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I don't care what PCGS or NGC thinks should or should not be in my collection. And yes they won't grade them, that doesn't mean that I can't.
I think he means Reale and I think the BU is where the title cut off the word "but" (And since he was using all caps it came out BU.)
Not bad advice, but you have to remember that NGC only has about 10 years worth of images of the coins they've slabbed and PCGS has very few...
Yes.
The rim is in an area where the obverse design of the second strike is fairly deep and the reverse is also about at it's deepest there. I would...
Acid soaked. Has that "Oreo cookie" effect.
Sounds like a good solution to me. It probably cam about shortly after the first 1998 Close AM cents were discovered which I think was around...
There are several different varieties of the roller press cents. Several years ago at the Michigan state show there was an exhibit that have...
Varieties, 1793 C-2, 1795 either C-2a or 2b depending on lettered edge or plain edge plain edge is extremely rare, 1804 C-6 die stage X, 1806 C-1,...
The 1794 is S-26, the 1798 is S-184, 1814 is S-294, 1820 is N-15, 1838 is N-11.
Those were aftermarket holders. They did not come from the grading services like that. Those holders probably haven't been made for over thirty...
As a reminder of your grandfather it is a wonderful item.
Most if not all of it is in From Mine to Mint, but I've been involved with early US numismatics for something like 40 years and I've picked up a...
The raised rim of metal in the field area at the left edge of the "hole" tells me it was the result of PSD.
It could if there foreign material, a piece of carbon, a little slag etc. If it is imbedded in the ingot it doesn't roll out like the metal does....
I feel your pain. Most anything I want or need now is all slabbed and I won't buy slabbed coins. (Yes I know I could buy them and crack them out,...
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