Nah, I'm having a hard time finding anything to disagree with here. An underlying point is, the more practice you have, the more this incredibly...
So, for instance, a 70 could not have visible die polishing or flow lines.
So as a general rule for you, anything showing what could/should be interpreted as "wear" ought to disqualify the coin from being Mint State...
Then you understood. "First Strike" coins are Marshmallow Fluff in the meat-eating world of numismatics, an invention of the TPG's with as much...
Yep. There's an 1857 FE with it in another active thread here, too. Longacre Doubling should surround the whole letter; this has the classic MD...
You'll note from auction records that Dimes don't seem to get away with anything from a grading standpoint. The smallest of marks on a Quarter is...
Both Philadelphia and Denver coins are known with the overdate. The Philly coin is a much more physically prominent overdate and has a bigger rep,...
A coin loses Uncirculated status when humans handle it in the course of business. That's not complex; if it's circulated it ain't Uncirculated. Of...
I like it as a nice EF with an argument for AU. Two minor rim bumps (visible obverse only); I don't know what affect they'd have on the opinion of...
Heck of a start. The luster is plainly ridiculous, especially for an issue with not many untoned survivors in Mint State. Go run down a page or...
The Variety Business has become entirely too populated over the years, despite the good intentions of everyone working in the field. There are...
I got a lot of 3 1921-P Morgans for $45 off Ebay, back in the day when that was a reasonable price for 3 Uncirculated 1921's. The pics were small...
I have a ton of previous threats of action to carry through in 2016. Enough to keep me out of trouble, anyway. :) That, and I'm anticipating a...
To elaborate, that's because the actual process which created the 1942/1's was a hubbing process, not a date punching process. The hubs already...
"Uncirculated" as an accurate adjective is not inapplicable to a coin which no longer has every single atom of metal in the exact same place it...
I don't think we can see whatever they called "tooling." Like I said, PCGS slabs chopmarked coins in regular non-Details slabs labeled "Chopmark."...
That's a nice illustration. It catches the diagnostic details while at the same time highlighting how hard they actually are to see in some cases.
I don't blame you for scarfing that one. It's a brilliant lustrous coin to begin with, and the strikethrough is fascinating.
The counterfeiters are good enough already without sharing specific production procedures to get them closer.
I don't doubt your ear. It's just my thinking that acceptable production tolerances might be capable of causing the pitch difference you hear....
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