I used to gold-leaf signage. The gold sheets we used were so light I used a camel's hair brush and static electricity to pick them up; it was the...
I have long since learned to suspend my sense of disbelief at what you come up with. :P
I think the bias manifests more clearly in lower-grade rarities than at the top end with Conditional Rarities, where the TPG's seem hesitant to...
Oh, no you didn't. O_O Yeah, it looks like a burn from sticking in a machine it was too wide for. Talk about luck - don't take any chances for a...
As hard as I try, from these images - and you've done right by using differing lighting angles - the best I can do is a nice high AU, one of the...
Tough call for a rare-in-grade but demand-limited issue. Dealer doesn't have a safe profit guaranteed - average sale including the vig for the 5...
....and Laura is widely unpopular. With the vested interests of numismatics, the elitists whose agenda is, at best, unconcerned with the vast...
So are accurate representations of United States coins.
Yeah, but at any one time there are half a dozen or so on eBay. That means I don't have to settle for less than a good XF if I ever want an N-30,...
N-30. The doubled bottom of the 1 is diagnostic; N-27's is less consistent at the serifs and also clearly doubled at the top. My heart was in my...
I don't believe the eye appeal of this one could be improved. Certainly not by subtracting anything. From the major crack through the T in LIBERTY...
Only the eyebrow keeps that one from 67 and a 10x jump in price. Even with it, it makes a case for being better than some 67's noted in Heritage...
It's a point of stress on the dies of this particular design; cracks in this location are pretty common on Kennedys.
The stuff in the reverse shield is as-struck; I don't know the nomenclature off the top of my head but I've seen those die chips before. Can't see...
I could have seen $100; I know how desirable that toning is. That's still 10x retail and then some, without DCAM.
For that kind of money you could go get 100 or so "normal" examples - PR69DCAMs to boot - and experiment until you figured out the combination....
Looks like a win. The glue was applied after the patina fully developed, which you wouldn't have known before although it's a relatively safe...
PCGS Pops don't even list "RB" as an available category after 1995. And I want a half-ounce or so of whatever the dealer's smoking. :P
The 1945 is the technically superior coin, in a narrow victory which would probably not be a full grade's difference. The 1946 is the one with the...
I'm at EF (probable PVC) on the 1847. The 1866 presents a better argument.
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