Has Lady Liberty been curling her shield over the past 150 years? Her arm is HUGE! ;) I've flipped flopped on the coin, quite candidly. At...
I suspect the folks on this thread will weigh in slightly differently: http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=26&threadid=691585...
I'm no fan of the French, but they do have some cool coins.....
Another nice strike!
That coin is certainly hammered in the center!
To much luster for a 25, Scrooge. :D I'd say a weakly struck coin that the TPGs would grade as a 35 or 40. :)
p.s. an extreme closup of a few areas of doubling would be even better. :)
Looks like strike doubling to me, but I'd love to see a really huge and tack-sharp version of the image to be more sure.
:vanish: (I've always wanted to use that one.)
Boo hoo. :( Leadfoot cries a tear when a coin, particularly an Elisaberg, gets dipped. :(
IMO, there is no such thing as a sleeper (i.e. an undervalued coin). Coins are, in most all situations, valued precisely how they should be....
It is also worth noting that you (presumably) haven't seen the before or after coins in-hand and are making the judgement based on an old "before"...
I think I understand you now (and thanks for explaining yourself), but I must respectfully disagree with your opinion on the topic. In my...
While you are entitled to do as you wish, it sickens me to think that you (what I consider) ruined a perfectly good and original coin.
That's a freaking awesome coin...Mike (who would be happy to buy it from you when you're done with it :) )
Perhaps your comments went right over my head.... I thought that was market grading? Or perhaps you're saying that you've noticed a more...
In the case of that statement, the wise man is known as "Truthteller" on the 'other' forums.
p.p.s. I grade the coin F details, cleaned and retoned, net VG.
p.s. I find the coin strangely attractive, BTW, and would have no problem adding it to my collection provided it is priced commensurate to its...
The coin looks to me to have been cleaned some time ago and has since retoned over a relatively long period of time. I don't see enough detail in...
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