The simplest answer to what happened is the coin had a bad run-in with chemicals. Dip, bleach, Coin doc cocktail, I couldn't tell you.
It had changed, but not improved. The models were already gone, so they had to make new ones quickly by copying a coin. The result was something...
By 1917, there were no coins left that could support larger mint marks, so there was no use for the large punches. Along comes the 1921 Morgan,...
While I can't make a call from your picture, the likely explanation is die fatigue. This tends to blur and distort outside edges of finer details...
Postage to me is the same as postage to PCGS, so that's a wash. Postage from me to PCGS is split up, so with a few submitters, it's very little....
Here's where a single picture isn't working. Hairlines from cleaning often hide until the light is just right, then they pop out at you. Tip and...
I hate to be a wet blanket, but it looks cleaned in the second obverse picture.
Seems like a split collar.
I just took a look through TVs of other 66s and 67s. OP was robbed.
While Remington developed the QWERTY layout, there's actually no proof anywhere showing exactly why it was established. The popular belief that...
Not CC, because they didn't make coins in 1898. Not O, because it looks circulated. Probably S, because that's where the money is in this...
There is a limit of 500 participants for these. You don't have to be an ANA member to enroll. The Morgan dollar class I'm teaching currently has...
I posted this a few days ago on the PCGS forum, so a handful of you have probably already seen this. Hopefully, the rest of you find this cool....
The cleaning was done post-engraving to try and blend the details better. Whether it's harsh or not (it is) is really immaterial, as the coin is...
Re-engraved details, then it had to be "softened" a bit to make the engravings not so sharp.
Bump
The C looks like damage to the coin. It is a small O, set slightly high, slightly to the right. This is where I'd start with the attribution.
Usually, but "strike doubling" is easily confused with "double struck," which is considered a legitimate error. In order to avoid that confusion,...
This isn't mine, but it has both. It also shows the most orderly progression of toning on an actual coin from untoned to later stage plum toning...
Sounds like a great session everyone that bemoans the inevitable demographically induced end of the hobby should attend, and you can't beat the price.
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