That's a heck of a question. I have heard it a few times before. I think it honestly depends on the person. If you have ever met me in person...
In a perfect world no. But once again you run into eye appeal. When grading coins I look at these factors: Wear, Strike, Eye Appeal and Luster. If...
I'm positive that there way more fakes then surviving original pieces these days. This coin has been the #1 counterfeited/altered coin for...
It depends on the amount of wear... XF's should even show traces of luster. If the coin has AU details and little or no luster... it's probably...
The color has nothing to do with it. Saying "luster/red" is not correct because they are different things. Luster is the light the original...
It's a result of die wear... as the die strikes thousands and thousands of coins, some of the smaller details close to the edge can appear to...
I agree. It's relatively modern and not original to the period and almost definitely not gold.
It doesn't look so bad in the bigger pictures... tho the color is still a little off. I would stick with my original assessment that it was...
Hard to say from that picture.... The color looks funky which means it was probably stripped and is either retoning on it's own or someone toned...
By far the nicest 1963 Nickel I have ever seen.
Just as an update this piece went to NGC yesterday.
I definitely wouldn't crack it when you send it in for the crossover... I'm also not sure they will cross the PL designation. So don't crack it if...
Yeah, Dont waste your money. A lot of dealers know bupkis about errors. This is just a normal business strike cent.
I also just took the coin and sat a Morgan silver dollar on top of it. It looks to be almost the same size... but the yen is just very slightly...
It looks like a Chinese counterfeit to me. I have seen examples of these floating around lately. Fred Weinberg had one (or a picture of one) at...
I unfortunately don't have a coin caliper but I do have a nice scale that weighs in grains. You can see that it weighs exactly right. [IMG]
Thanks for the response. This coin comes from the collection of a friend and I can personally verify its ownership by him for more then 30 years....
this is how I see it [IMG]
If this does turn out to be year 7.... this apparently is a heck of a coin... at least according to the krause catalog. So am I reading this right...
Ok, here is a much better picture of the marks... to me these don't look like normal scratches. The striations you refer to Doug, do we know the...
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