All of these polishing compounds work on the same principle, a fine abrasive suspended in a slightly viscous liquid. The larger the size of the...
Heavily plated with nickel. Pure nickel is STRONGLY magnetic, almost as much as iron.
Yes he does have a point, and it was the same point made by several posters last year.
Correct.
Coin wrapper machine damage. The wrapper finger that crimps the end of the roll scraped the 0 shearing it and pushing it to one side creating the...
That's where it happens. They enter the information from the submission form into the computer (And he information COULD also be wrong on the...
Bstrauss, sorry I didn't answer you earlier but I'm at a location where the internet connection is spotty and dissappears for hours at a time. I...
Beef beat me to it, the mint only adjusted gold and silver planchets not copper. But I would have no problem buying that coin as a G-6.
If it was an S with damage it would be a proof coin and this one isn't.
What does the edge look like. I'm wondering about possibly something removed from an encasement.
So would a modern proof dime with those scratches grade as a 63?
I believe it is created during the supernova collapse and explosion, element formation through the normal fusion process of the star ends at Iron
It is only slightly smaller than a lincoln cent and cent scratched up like that would not get a PF-63
No, it requires the word COPY, to stamped incuse into the coin. Replica (raised or incuse) does NOT satisfy the HPA rules. And I wouldn't...
I'm fairly sure 've seen that one before. There have been at least three companies, possibly four, that have used the NCG initials.
For all the dies (hundreds or thousands for moderns) of a given date/mint combination maybe a half dozen or so will be doubled dies, most of them...
In the past ebay has denied the seller protection in cases where the seller shipped to the buyers listed address and the buyer had the post office...
Combination hole and zinc rot. (rot has been cleaned out)
Looks like a D with impact damage. No, there is no logical reason why it couldn't exist. All the dies were made at Philadelphia and all the...
Three strikes you're out, acid.
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