It is not that hard to learn how to to crop your images! Anyways, I think It is a VG Details, I see some corrosion but with those microscopic...
I completely agree with you, professionally graded or not a bunch of bag marks and/or scratches IS going to affect the grade by a lot depending on...
I have never ever tried it, I just read something online about it. That is what I figured.
I just edited the post above this to say more info @krispy
Here's more info, It was minted under the emperor Te Tsung in the Kuang T'ung mint (Kwangtung mint) in only 1889, it is more common than I though...
My dad had a bunch of old coins when he was young, long story short, he buried 50% of them in his backyard, the 50% he made "shiny" with a hammer...
1890's Machine struck cash coin, slightly rarer mint but not rare enough to make it worth much. Pretty nice.
Funny enough, my oldest Non-ancient coins I own were found with my metal detector. 1655-1658 French Liard 1696 William III Halfpenny 1723 Wood's...
I will bring an Ike dollar, Two Dollar bill, or Kennedy Half Dollar with me sometimes. Whenever I take change out of my pocket I will also grab...
I kind of like this Barber dime, it is around it's market price....
It looks to be within the mint's tolerance but I would keep it, it is only a cent.
It is very simple to cut out another dollar bill's seal, glue it to a piece of paper, put it in a copier, tape a normal dollar note to a piece of...
It looks like corrosion due to chemicals of some sort, copper reacts in a different way than nickel so that is why the edge looks like that.
It is slightly better, though it looks dipped based on those bad photos. I think that this coin is a better deal and being guarantied by a...
Photo of the coins obverse of reverse would help, it looks like it was put in Nitric Acid, that would eat at the copper but not the Nickel (I...
Wait! It looks like it may be a DDO or Overdate???? Is this true... I see some doubling on the date and other features. [ATTACH]
Very cleaned, the hairlines are very noticeable, plus it is scratched, I agree with sshafer11, that coin will look worse in hand. I would pass for...
No, Wide AM. The corrosion and zinc rot make it harder to see the space but based on what I can see, there is a space.
I had one like that I found in change, it was a zinc cent and was almost a blank copper looking disk with extremely faded images of lincoln in it....
Greased die, sadly the coin looks like in fell in a garbage disposal or a blender, maybe under an 18 wheeler too, maybe even all of the above!...
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