AU details, cleaned, net XF.
Two recommendations: I would contact Brian Wagner (BWRC). Tell him what you want and what you want to pay, and let him recommend a few coins...
p.s. Mark, will you please load your icon so I can recognize you. ;)
I would offer no better than AU money for that coin, and even then I would likely not bid with pictures that small and deceptively taken. This...
Are you joking?
The 22-d looks cleaned to my eye. Still a nice coin, in fact both are nice. Respectfully and truthfully submitted...Mike
p.s. and likely is (now reading the responses) if the coin is from DLRC. Their photos are notoriously "off"....and the coins generally look much...
64 sounds about right. The color looks a bit "off", but that could be the photo.
p.s. take a look at this website for good tips on the topic: http://coinimaging.com/
Two words -- white balance. Work on it, you still have issues. Otherwise the photos look nice -- well lit, well exposed and well focused....
Thank you for the response, and I respect your right to express your opinion. My questions were trying to get under why you have voiced that...
Which begs the following questions... #1 - Which CAC peddlers are not honest? #2 - Are those that peddle CAC coins any more or less honest...
The only upside to this auction is at least he takes returns.
Good detective work Jim.
p.s. reading the rest of the posts, it sure is a good thing I'm not an authenticator. ;)
I don't think I've ever seen a draped bust dollar with dentils that look like that. Fake is my gut feeling, but I am anything but knowledgable...
Fingerprints generally don't bodybag the coin unless they have eaten into the surface. However, generally they will net down the coin due to...
I thought so too, that's why I bought it. In point of fact, the roughness on the reverse should net the coin down a bit. It's now raw though. ;)
By way of another comparison, here's a 14-D in ANACS VF 20, which has probably more detail than the 25 I posted earlier, but the coin below has...
Congrats Jon! Only a few more to go.... FWIW, I'm down to 2: 09-S VDB 22 no D All but 5 (31-s, 24-d, 14-d and the 2 above) were...
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