I cannot tell from your images, but you can be my eyes. Is there an unnatural looking flat area in the recess at the back of the Indian's neck,...
Can you slide the holder out of the sleeve and shoot better images?
Can you post really good photos?
Accelerated oxidation
That's a very tough spot you're in. Unless your grandparents had special coverage for the coin collection, I wouldn't expect the insurance...
Ugly, but looks genuine to me . . . probably lost copper content to long term burial or immersion in a corrosive medium.
What you just described is, by all accounts, the very definition of Value-Grading or Market-Grading. When a coin does not satisfy the...
Agreed . . . the coin looks "Value-Graded" to me.
Dealers only become irrelevant when you can find everything you want, when you want it, for no more than you are willing to pay, and for no more...
As an inexperienced eBayer, and possibly lacking common courtesy as well, he may not realize he should have corresponded with you. I would follow...
Nice to see your persistence pay off.
Sorry, but that doubling just doesn't do it for me . . . it's for real . . . just not substantial enough to have staying power in the marketplace.
Sc Scratch-resistant, yes. Scratch-free . . . not a chance.
Very sound reasoning.
Yeah, I still keep much better photos of the coin on hand from before I submitted it (the others too - If I see any of those coins, I'll have the...
Stolen in a 2009 burglary . . . formerly PCGS Cert 14206027. [IMG]
Replies to the OP's questions . . . It's a big coin for a newbie like me, and I don't have the cash, but I thought, "Hey, it doesn't hurt to...
No, I don't think the graders even know the coins they are looking at have been submitted for Secure service.
MS64+
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