If you're a collector who just wants to complete a collection you can enjoy and be proud of then the number grade of each coin you have is...
[MEDIA] Graders work on 800 coins a day. Not accounting for break times, that's 100 per hour or 1 minute, 40 seconds each. I doubt anyone can...
You can zoom/crop the image when taking the picture with the pinch/zoom method.
Getting rolls from your bank isn't quite the same as finding them in circulation but at least then you could put the coins into circulation affter...
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Pareidolia at work.
Better get yourself a coin collectors dictionary; people here love to talk in acronyms and think everyone should know what they mean (don't be...
It looks MS to me but hits on the vertical and horizontal shield bars, along with hits on the left wheat and the "2" will keep it out of the upper...
How can showing the date and mint provide any additional information to show this coin is or isn't genuine. We should assume the poster knows...
Surely you jest... Silvertips are not silver; they're lead with a polymer or aluminum silver-colored tip. Silver is not an effective bullet...
You didn't say it...I said it. I was questioning why an experienced dealer who deals in coins shouldn't be considered a knowledgeable grader...
6+ years later and you're still "working on it"? Gee whiz man, WTH?
"the skin is not broken"? What does that mean? I say it's many people's favorite term - PMD. I'd like to see another photo of the 2011 ASE that...
Do you trust the knowledge of the posters on this forum who can tell the grade of almost any coin by looking at a fuzzy digital photograph...
Whatever the marks are, they were inpressed there by the die and to me look a lot like gouges on the die. too blurry? The image is sharp enough...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] So, no comments on the "ideal" example, gouges between rays or the OP's example gouges on Liberty's' hand?
I wonder if this thread would have gone 5 pages and nearly 90 comments (so far) if the tiny divot the OP found was instead hidden somewhere in the...
Unless you have Superman vision I don't believe you saw that mark with your naked eye. What amount of magnification did you use to find it?
Re: Mr. Gallino - I don't know who he is either, but his writing was accepted by Coin World. Does this make him an expert? Of course not, no...
Two thoughts: 1. Doesn't the Mint itself possess detailed descriptions of the designs? If not them, then the designer's working notes and papers...
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