This speaks to the seller's frame of mind, and gives pause to rethink their intent.
I would be entirely unsurprised if ICG was the closest to "reality" of the grades.
Paddy, is there anything on the reverse of that coin? If not, how would you theorize they managed that strike at the Mint, with nothing to bolster...
O-110 (the spike at the top of the cap is definitive, in conjunction with the date arrangement), and with that variety in mind the sharp collector...
In the current market, I'd suspect a Gold bean on a 50 is worth more than a plain 58.
That's fair. I'd much rather be a coin collector in Arizona than Iceland. :)
Poor-enough storage - in my personal grading spectrum - amounts to circulation, and I'd like this coin far better in an AU slab than I would one...
There's a big difference between polishing for initial die prep/touchups during the die's working life, and polishing to remove clashing. With the...
Yeah, it was.
I've never seen a Proof brockage before. I imagine they happen, just can't understand how they let it out of the building.
Holy Toledo. O_O
You did need to, and thank you for doing so. The only way these go away is if we shine the harsh light of publicity on them. And you did it right,...
That is a broadstruck dime mounted on a nickel to photographically show the Dime's increase in size. Read the writeup.
I think there was a gun involved. :P
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The physical impossibility of a Mint process to create something like that should be factored.
Probably - I have the same impression as jeffB that "Red" means "the same color it was on the day of issue," and nothing else additional.
The original post was five years ago. We can do what we want with the thread now. :)
Moisture isn't the worst enemy of your coins - air is. Moisture merely exacerbates the reactions between the metal of the coin and the compounds...
No, it's completely normal to them, and you and I are the weird ones who "don't see the truth." They are more numerous than you know; in fact, one...
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