Long answer: 1968 was the last year the hub of 1918 was used, and had accumulated 50 years of wear from being cast back and forth from working hub...
Perhaps the buyer did. I don't think there's any guarantee that comes with it, though. Only a grading credit.
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Acetone took care of the tape, but wouldn't budge the Mylar.
I had a relatively low value coin come to me back around 2001-2 that was in a 2x2, taped to a piece of cardboard and then sandwiched with another...
It would also be a very effective way to troll a dealer like this that you don't plan on patronizing again.
There's been a lot of discussion of this here. Lots of varying reactions.
There are many details coins in Heritage's archives. If you don't have an account created with Heritage (it sounds like you do), create one, even...
The toning is plausible. The rims are green, and a little lighter in shade than the blue away from the rim. From left to right, this is the...
Thanks for posting this thread. I knew you'd do something for the anniversary. I was 2 at the time -- too young to really have any appreciation...
Why would someone pay for a 70 without inspecting it in person first, to make sure there's nothing wrong with the coin, the holder, or how the...
OK OK Modern commems generally do. SCREEEEECCCHHH!!! ASE is fine, but the Buffalo Silver Dollar is awful. It's an artistically lobotomized...
In 2006, the mint pinched off the "Old Mint" commemorative dollar with a caricature of the Morgan reverse barely worthy of silver plated "tribute"...
I'll be there Thursday through Saturday, doing photography at table 1711 and giving a talk about the insight one can gain from studying die...
I imagine the weight is close enough that neither grading service was able to conclude it was counterfeit by the weight alone.
I agree with having NCS take a crack at it. The little die markers used to authenticate a 93-S aren't going to show up with the corrosion, but...
Does the order tracking show "In Process", or has it not even gotten that far? If it's "In Process," then it's in the queue to be graded, and...
This. As for the shield being boring, you're comparing it with two stark, very geometric wheat stalks surrounding a bunch of lettering and a...
Harshly polished. It doesn't look whizzed, which refers a specific type of polishing, because there's no "artifical luster" on it, just a sheen....
I actually checked it last night, and didn't see anything other than notched serifs on the first T and the S in TRUST, which seem to be in the...
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