It would sound a lot like Homer Simpson tumbling down a boulder strewn hillside.... [ATTACH]
According to Bowers in the Morgan Guide Book, with the original hubs destroyed in 1910, the Mint used an 1878 7TF/rev of 78 as a model. The...
My 10$ lib has a few more years on it. [IMG][IMG]
Very nice! A lot of gold repatriated from Europe has the dark gray smudges after a century of storage in canvas bags.
nice looking original coins. I like the walker.
I like the coins of Hawaii and finally finished a circulated set. Grade wise, the op's coin looks about mid VF to me. The obverse appears to...
Note to self: always wear black or navy blue when going through junk boxes. You never know.
Phenomenal find. If it had been me, the large stain on the front of my pants might have tipped off the dealer. thank goodness the buyer had the...
nice little original coin.
Great looking coin, and I agree with Razz, the large flat area at the top of the shield is virtually pristine.
Before I saw the assigned grade, my guess was EF40 also. Agree that the overall light look suggests an old cleaning, but doesn't detract and the...
I think it was kept in an old, high sulfur album. I found a few like that in my Dad's sdb. The album.. a folder, really, was disintegrating....
Thanks! I'm sure you'll have it, or one like it, some day.
I think the mark on the chin and the other scattered obv marks will keep it at 62.
I agree with MS details, looks like a fairly dense patch of hairlines in the right obv field and next to UNI on the rev. They don't come much...
I like the coin the cleaning does not seem obtrusive. As J.M. pointed out, for 130 there is only so much downside and it's a nice example of an...
I'll guess 62+, nice coin and scarce.
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That's a really nice example of an historic coin, and personally, adjustment marks would bother me a lot more than the x does.
definitely MS.. I think 63 due to moderate number of dings and scrapes in focal areas esp. on the obv.
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