Well, I lived in the Keys in 1976 and knew Mel Fisher and all I can tell ya is this - he hadn't found any coins from the Atocha by then.
Hmmmmm, since he didn't discover the wreck of the Atocha until 1985, I'd be just a bit skeptical. Besides, Atocha artifacts are notoriously...
Uhhhhh - you didn't notice the roll eyes smiley ? That means I was being facetious. And the only reason I made the comment was because of one of...
Great job on your notes ! ;)
Ask 100 different people and you'll probably get 50-75 different answers as to "what" might be better. Unfortunately once a forum software is...
At the time, I lived in Utah, the 2nd driest state in the country.
Not much chance of that Michael - you already have one. There, feel better now ? :D
ANA book tells you about Proofs too, it's in the Forward of the book. You have to remember to use the whole book. But no, Proofs are not graded...
No it looks that way. But that could be due to die wear.
For what it's worth, coins can tone very quickly, especially ASEs. I once bought a roll of them, put them all in AirTites, and then put them all...
Don't feel bad, I didn't know it until you told me :D Thanks for the kind words folks :)
It's in a PCGS slab and they don't get authentication on US coins wrong very often.
Steve you might want to be aware of the fact that with coins like the one you want, TPGs often grade very high percentages of them as 70s. High...
And I suggest you forget about discussing the political aspect here on this forum.
Something else that just occurred to me, say there was a collector who used metal letter punches on all of his coins. Every coin he got for his...
Countermarks and chopmarks are two entirely different things. Countermarks were used to establish the value of a given coin, usually but not...
Anything is possible. Earth could be struck by a giant asteroid and all life wiped out within the next year. Aliens could invade ! What is...
As I said, everybody has their own, and often unique, definitions.
You seem to have missed the point I was making - NOBODY can tell AT from NT with any degree of certainty. All anybody can do is guess. And that...
Regarding the time frame in which a given coin was slabbed, the TPG can pin it down to the day by using their own records if they choose to do so....
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