Kudos for the discovery.
This is awesome Paddy. It harkens back to a time when one could focus far more on one's pocket change, and much less on magazine ads, local shows...
It's important to feel satisfied that you are doing a good job, but remember that self-improvement always stands between the best and perfection....
I think it's a tossup between 63DMPL & 64PL.
Kudos . . . Exceptional find!
An invaluable reference on this subject is Proof Coins Struck By The United States Mint, by Walter Breen, of which I see 4 copies available on Amazon.
Tape a note into the album explaining that the hole is occupied by a counterfeit simply to indicate completion of the series, and that it...
This should not, and probably will not be treated as a minor stuck through by NGC, simply because it is on a coin intended for, and manufactured...
Look at all of the alphas and numerals . . .
This coin just barely caught my eye at lunchtime because I thought it looked very wrong. I know different dies sometimes can deliver subtle...
My pleasure Larry . . . your business is most appreciated. - Mike
Yes, I suspect that coin has been heated.
I've seen enough toned gold to know that it does indeed tarnish naturally, and even does so with only trace levels of other elements in the metal....
It's a keeper . . . especially on a 40% Ike. If submitted as an error, it almost certainly would get attributed, however, the cost of error...
Post mint damage . . . coin looks like it was squeezed in a vise.
AU55
That was a clamshell lamination that was "helped" by someone who didn't know it was better off left as-is.
This is not necessarily diagnostic of a fake. An absence of material from the planchet, such as flaking or a shallow delamination would cause...
Here's another fake quarter eagle. There are plenty of things to study on this "coin". I just noticed this one for the first time, and have no...
My perspective is that, for coins readily available from original rolls - mostly Morgan and Peace Dollars and minor silver coinage from 1916...
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