The differences between these two half dollars goes beyond "50 Cents" and "Half Dol." The rim on the reverse was strengthened greatly in 1839....
I am with @Collecting Nut. Most fingerprints are ugly and distracting. So far as I'm concerned, that 2020 cent is overpriced by $19.99.
The 1926 Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Half Dollar was struck in very low relief, which had an adverse effect upon its appearance. John Sinnock,...
Pictures would be a great help here. There are three minor variations of the coin. The really valuable one has a reverse that much sharper than...
Given the toughness of the copper-nickel alloy, it had to be in the drier for a long time. Still exposure to a machine like that is a great...
The tokens of Gustafus Lindenmeyer are very common. There was a story among the CWT collecting community that the New York City street car...
The photography might be making the coin look lighter and more "cleaned" than it actually is. Using American standards, I would say it is a VF....
To show what "split bands" looks like, here is the reverse of a 1936 Proof Dime. Since this is a Proof it doesn't count, but at least you can see...
Not even close. From what I've heard from the specialists, the 1945-P Mercury Dime is very scarce with fully split bands.
For me, I prefer PCGS for American coins, and NGC for foreign and ancient coins. Actually I prefer most of my British and Imperial Roman coins raw...
For Mint State copper coins, the color is part of the grade. It's been that way before the Sheldon scale was applied to grading. I remember a...
Sharpness grade is Choice AU. but it's been cleaned to remove spots or undesirable toning. This obvious on the upper part of the obverse above the...
The only rebuttal one could make to this is if the mark is the steps, head, bell lines or torch, most experienced collectors are going to pick it...
Going through my photos, I got some good shots of the stern, but nothing of the bow because you could see it from the observation platform above...
This from a set of copy pieces that were sold, I think in the 1990s. The company made copies of every "old commemorative half dollar." The...
That is an interesting observation. That may have explained the placement of the engraving, although I don't think that the coin would have looked...
The SBA dollar is not ugliest U.S. coin. This one has it beat. It's the Capitol Visitors Center commemorative half dollar. The red marks are not...
Few people know it today, but Richard Yeoman also wrote an excellent article on the 1848 "CAL." $2.50 gold circa 1949. It was the "gold standard"...
When I was there, they were selling a very nice replica of this coin in the gift shop. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I thought about mounting a coin...
I have never been a fan of old red copper. By “old” I mean something that is older than I am, roughly prior to 1950. I have had too many of the...
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