It's a lovely coin. The grade (or the Bean) would have no impact whatsoever on the price for which it would sell. There are One Hundred and Three...
Men usually wear hoops or posts, not danglies. :)
No doubt; for sets like these, polishing would have been considered an appropriate preparation step. Do you still have the original holder? That...
It toned - maybe "naturally" - after a polishing so heavy it can only be referred to as "machine buffing."
Not when I'm gonna eat Ramen noodles for three months to own it, I ain't. Not even with a Bean. :P I'm currently looking around for this year's...
Some of what we see here is on the slab - it's kind of skritchy - and a coin with such vicious luster will accentuate the smallest of minor...
Yes, once, with the most expensive coin I own. The seller's images were quite good, but finding the coin at CoinFacts (it was, but no longer is, a...
Not a chance. 1893-S coins are Far Date; this one is a Near Date. The date is a whole denticle too far left.
Somewhere between "Neutral" and "Negative," I think. Original Red copper is what's prized, and I've seen plenty of Woodies I felt undergraded...
Every coin ever struck was Mint State until it wasn't.
ANA membership is only $28, and confers a bunch of other benefits in addition to NGC submission privileges....
I think so. It's solid for the grade, and the color has to be a plus even though it's a little....odd. :)
You have those people wrapped around your finger. :P Most submit a slam-dunk MS65 and get MS62. You submit an AU and get MS62. :D
Looking from the gallery down at the floor of the Philadelphia Mint, it's not hard to imagine half a dozen or ten presses striking one...
It's no biggie; your technique brings out the actual color better than square images unless you've got large amounts of time and money into your...
Self-flagellation, then. :)
We're in the wrong line of work, brother.
ROFL. I hope you didn't injure the seller too severely when you bludgeoned him. :p
I arrived at the same place (when I open a Bust Half thread, I attribute it before reading any responses). The dot at the throat, among other...
Learn that; the real "sleeper" slabs are the ones with that Futura-family typeface using perfectly round letters and slab-sided zeros. The coin...
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