You might want to leave Conder out of that group Chris. His very name comes from his passion for non US coins.
Excellent, just excellent !!
It's a lot more complicated than that. The maximum and minimum permissible weights for any of the coinage of the Spanish colonial mints was always...
Small correction Mike, I am not, nor have I ever been, a coin dealer. But I do understand your point.
It's a very complicated issue with many changes that occurred over many years. NGC and PCGS make a point of there being differences in their...
Geoff I don't know what to tell ya. I've written out the exact same info about other coins probably a hundred times. That info will always prove...
Well, you know what they say about blind squirrels ;)
I'd have to say no, I think the marks on the cheek are going to hold it back.
And alcohol is what I always used on my own because I always had that around the house. Acetone however, not something I would normally keep...
Hmmm, OK, you made me think. Happy ? :) As usual when I look at a coin I grade it myself instead of trying to figure out what a TPG might say....
Well, for whatever it's worth it was live auction with prior internet bidding. And an internet bidder won it. Rather obviously nobody that looked...
Like I said, I don't know what else to call it. But when raised metal cuts into the fields and cuts of the top of the letters, and it obviously...
coin dexter posted a thread about one of his coins, a 1913-D type 1 Buff in MS66, and that got me to looking. Not wanting to sidetrack his thread...
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