Raising my children, I always told them not to focus on getting the good grades at school. Instead I taught them that if they focused on learning...
With Dealer wholesale being the following for each, you might be able to justify a low grade Coronet Half eagle more easily than you think: 1/10...
Pretty coin.
you have my best wishes for your dad to get the right treatment in the right time frame.
What "strikes" me as curious is why there are both coin-aligned and medal-aligned versions with so few total examples to emerge. In making the...
Outstanding color!
Rather than referencing depth of strike, they are likely referring to the lack of crispness of transferred details . . . i.e., edges of the...
XF45
No doubt about the pristine coin in some series being unusual, but my observation is that none of the big three shy away from classifying major...
Your point is well taken, however the industry has already established precedents by classifying die breaks, cuds, misaligned dies and rotated...
Hi Jason, I wish to add a bit of my own flavor on this topic, and I expect push-back from others. I agree that varieties address many...
XF Details, cleaned and retoned
Very natural coin, weakly struck . . . I think they pushed it to AU53.
It's better than a broadstrike, if you can get them to recognize it as double-struck too. I think you'll have to spell it out for them on the...
Thanks. I didn't want to draw this conclusion based on one image alone, although I could have. I believe your coin is double struck, with the...
In my experience, it's tough to get full strike designations on error coins because of the unevenness of strike, however I wouldn't discourage you...
How did I miss THAT?
Tell us you didn't pay only $19 for that roll of Indians . . .
Extraordinary find!
A conditionally rare $10.00 1882-S in MS63 [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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