I'm impressed by your analytics, but to me that smacks of overthinking the issue a bit. But more power to you if you find a formula that works...
This is the sort of stuff that might make me rethink my hard stance against "details" coins. I think Randy did really well on those two,...
PS- it's kind of a moot question for me personally. I do not buy "details" coins if I can help it. (Though a certain "details" Bust dollar did...
It's not a very satisfying answer, but the true answer is, "I go on gut and pull a number out of the air". Of course I do take into consideration...
I concur. AU50 details was my thought. Don't see the luster I'd expect, though. It looks cleaned, though that could be the lighting, too,...
Thanks. You’re the first to comment on Granddaddy’s medal. Sadly, the Champion (now Evergreen) paper mill (Champion was the company that issued...
Somebody didn’t read the intro… ;)
I had similar thoughts about Fair-02 because of the clear date, but since I’ve seen certified PO-01 coins with clear dates, I hedged my bets there.
Long, long belated reply (more than a year late!): hey, that is a really sweet holey 1853 quarter! The hole position isn't perfect, but wow, what...
BTW, here's my 1871 filler. :) [IMG]
I'm collecting "filler" Indian cents, too, as it happens. With a twist. ;)
The forum server is slow. If you click "post reply" while you're waiting for the first reply to post, you'll get a double. Best to just wait it...
Never mind. @Randy Abercrombie is hereby DISQUALIFIED from this contest. :wideyed: Why? Because he's an automatic winner. :) I'm sending him...
PCGS Photograde standards (scroll left for the lower grades) Value, per Numismedia
This one looks OK to me. Probably cleaned, but it's an old cleaning, and the coin has retoned. It might not straight-grade at a TPG, but I think...
+1 ditto. Even if it's real (about which I have serious doubts), it has that overscrubbed, harshly cleaned look. Real or fake, it's a hard...
I'd give it a gentle rub with Vaseline and a paper towel to remove some of the grime. Not a hard rub, obviously. You want to leave the color...
(I removed your duplicate thread.) That doesn't look too bad for a filler coin. I'd say it grades somewhere between Poor-01 and Fair-02, so it's...
Chris Scarre's Chronicle of the Roman Emperors was my go-to information source when I started collecting their coins. I really enjoyed that book...
Dunno ‘bout any pins, but my jaw certainly did!
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