I knew we could count on your love token knowledge LordM!
That's cool but I'm equally stumped. @lordmarcovan any ideas?
Sorry to hear about the long distance; hopefully you will be reunited in the near future. As far as the "another entrant" comment, yes it is a...
That is a nice looking set! One thing I like about many of the Russian coins is that they clearly state the weight and purity of gold.
I've seen the ballerina coins and once owned a silver version. They are nice! By low-carat, do you mean purity of gold? From what I have seen, the...
Another new entrant to the set, here we have Armenia represented. Coins from Armenia aren't as hard to find since there are plenty of the Noah's...
It's an interesting thing to think about and I agree with you that the RB range is super wide and somewhat arbitrary. Maybe there should just be...
I was thinking it was the same coin but I couldn't match the cheek hit, so I backed off that guess (photo angles played a role and @Beefer518...
First impression was MS 63....65 seems a bit generous
MS 64 ....nice look and one of my favorite designs among the gold commems
Also, nice to see you posting again @lordmarcovan
Pretty much same strategy here to get to vf 25. :p
My guess was going to be MS 66 but I was debating hedging down to MS 65. Looks relatively clean and lustrous. Great deal that you got on that lot!
MS 62 ...given it's a better date and there are plenty of marks/hits (especially on the face), I'm going conservative
Rattlers are more common unless it's the first generation white label (all of them start with 108 in the cert number but not all 108s are white...
Mostly yes. Some people like collecting the holders/stickers. There is some merit to having an early piece of grading history. Most people don't...
And here is another currently on eBay (not mine) that is again similar to the pictured example but in a details holder. It is listed at $45 plus...
This type of toning is fairly well known on proof Jefferson nickels from the late 1950s through the 1960s (and occasionally other years). Some...
I would definitely not crack this coin out. I doubt it's a 68 (which is the minimum needed to make money at the price this ended at). The more...
The coin looks nice, so that helps but I'd agree it's no more than 5% like you mentioned. The holder and the Gold Cac are the driving factors. I...
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