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I think it's very suspect. Surfaces have a grainy look; numbers and letters look puffy as opposed sharp/squared off; and very little fine detail...
thanks for posting the results of your tests. I'm not sure what the role of US cleaning would be. I find that a good long soak in acetone removes...
nice buys and thanks for the report.
Sunday dinner at Telluride in 1897 would put me in a coma!
I like the 1894 with the "Largest Glass of Beer." On the 1885 N.O. menu, for those who don't know, "croakers" are a type of salt water fish from...
I have a few, many in desperate need of upgrading. The raw ones are fun to hold, though, and imagine where they have been. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Nice coin!
sorry those edge images did not enlarge. I'll have to fiddle with them but trust me the reeding is really bad!
About a week ago, I noticed this trade dollar at auction on eBay....
I'm going with 55, you can see some light wear on the high points and loss of field luster, I think.
I don't know much about Morgans, but that's a really well struck coin. grade.. I'll guess 62 because of the scuffs/scrape on the left obv.
tried to post a larger image of the upper rev. but no luck.
I missed the post about the subject coin's weight. If the scales are accurate, a trade dollar with EF details should weigh about 27g. My raw EF...
I've given up trying to grade proofs from photos, because the grade depends on hairlines, and on proofs they usually only show at certain angles.
I just went through 4 pages of 1873 trade dollars in the Heritage archives, all of the 73-P's had at most the broken top of the E in UNITED, none...
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[ATTACH] you can see multiple broken letters and missing serifs in the lettering. My raw 73P has just the broken E in UNITED. Few dies were made...
That's a fair point. I have not seen a trade dollar yet with signs of die rust in the fields. CAn't say for sure it never happened but I have...
here's an enlargement of the talon area, the original photo was somewhat unsharp, and with the increase in image size detail was lost. [ATTACH]...
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