Um, the dip is what causes the red color.... These coins are ruined. Hopefully they're just an inexpensive lesson regarding how not to treat...
Good thing you no longer qualify for the "First Strike" labels; those are not relevant to actual numismatists.
Yes, but the conversation you just replied to happened 4 years ago. I suspect the original poster has heard about it a time or two since. :)
You can expect that upper left quadrant of a Lincoln reverse to sometimes appear weak. It's opposite Lincoln's shoulder on the obverse, a place...
The only other reverse die uses a far smaller mint mark. These have to match exactly, if we assume the slabbed coin is authentic.
If a "Dollar" with a Quarter reverse is a danger, the problem is not counterfeits; it's collectors who are too stupid to learn about the coins...
I want a Washington Dollar. Those things are too cool. :) And so common they're not "rare."
The images from the original coin aren't good enough to be conclusive, but I'm seeing differences between the two (particularly placement of the...
Edge lettering on Busties was subject to so many possible mistakes that virtually none of those mistakes carries much for added value or interest....
Guaranteeing a grade is guaranteeing what someone else likes. Not possible. That's why you make only the vaguest references to grade in any sales...
BD-1, Tall 5. I won't call it certainly real but a clash that clear is difficult to counterfeit unless they prepared some pretty darn accurate...
Speaking as a Morgan nut, that would be the coin I spent $300 on. Or maybe a nice AU Bustie. :)
I don't "accept" that. Cartwheel is a function of die condition and strike quality. Nothing else.
Yours is one of the nicer ones known, I'm sure, but VAM-7 in and of itself isn't an added-value designation. It's not a particularly uncommon variety.
Well, there isn't exactly lots of air circulating inside a tube. So, the coins therein either had to get a large-enough dose of the sulfur...
It's simple physics. Cartwheel is a function of surface roughness on a microscopic scale. Regardless of whether the coin has been cleaned, if...
In your case - there are a thousand individual differences capable of causing differing toning rates - your cleaning process differing just...
Agreed on all points.
My pleasure. And don't forget that no opinion expressed online based on a single set of images can be taken as Gospel. Nobody's that good. :)
Well, the difference between those and righteously-toned coins is stark and plain to anyone who understands the process. And many of us *do* know...
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