I agree, that is a cool looking trime.
So, does that color come from the mint cellophane? I like it.
Yes it is a little PL, but to be honest much of the light frost on the obv is gone. I have noticed that a lot of coins now being slabbed as AU58...
I'll post this, as it is about the main issue of that decade: [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
I just received a recent auction win from Stack's-Bowers, an 1873-s trade dollar. Most of the mintage went straight to Asia, where they were...
Beautiful, original half dollar. I know you'll treasure it for a long time to come.
The forgers spent a lot less effort on the rev. which is pretty crude. Thanks for posting this as it is a fairly dangerous fake that would fool a...
Beautiful, crusty CC half, okbustchaser!
I'm a little embarrassed to post this one. As you can see someone tried to scratch off some gunk at the lower right leading to details grade (...
Sheesh. That could make a Morgan Collector out of me.
Looks pretty close to perfect. I'm sort of lost when the grade gets past MS 65 on these little coins
I agree. Also the bale has been re engraved. Someone really wanted to "pretty up " the obverse. Otherwise not a bad looking example of a coin...
This 76-cc DDR had an old cleaning but retoned. [IMG] [IMG]
Bill, your 73 and 74 cc Trade Dollars are superb. By that I mean perfect.
Good to see some ideas being tossed around. Look forward to 2015!
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Yeah, the information about the silver source came from someone whose ancestor was a close friend of the CC mint superintendent. He still has one...
unfortunately had a bath at some point.. [IMG] [IMG] The first year of Carson City Silver dollars. The silver did not come from the Comstock...
I'm thinking tooled/altered surfaces as the fields look strange; might just be an aggressive cleaning. Still a scarce P mint doubledime
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