I highly recommend looking at Chris McCawley's offerings. I got my two 1811's from him.
Why? If you have what I'm interested in I'd be very willing to deal with you.
Nice coin. I'm fond of that issue (1809-1836). I've got a complete Red Book business strike set (minus the 1811, Rev of 1802).
PART 1 I appear to have run out of sources for finding some more expensive coins ($1000+) on my wantlist. I need more sources for Seated Liberty...
I don't pay attention to auctions like that. When I couldn't even afford the buyers' fees (never mind the coins themselves) it is annoying to...
With these 3 coins I now have 38 of the 45 Red Book listed SL coin varieties with "Arrows at Date". 1854-O Dime NGC AU-50 [IMG] [IMG] 1855...
I use NGC Registry Sets because they accept both PCGS and NGC slabbed coins. PCGS accepts ONLY PCGS slabbed coins. So you would have to buy ONLY...
Yes. I know its retail value based on CoinWorld. Something I had to do to get a reasonable amount of insurance from Hugh Wood. How much I paid is...
No expert, but I see no problem with the coin being a fake. But there looks like a fingerprint on the obverse.
Most of my actual reading is outside of the coin realm. For me numismatic literature is used as a quick reference.
Which goes under the general term "verdigris". A quick check indicates that it is most often copper carbonate, copper chloride or copper acetate...
I don't see anything that says "cleaned". I'd say original surfaces and high VF to XF-40. Mine is a VF-30 and yours is a touch better.
IMO it's oxidation/corrosion.
I get to the point sometimes that I can't find something on eBay that will fill a hole. That generally occurs when all I have left to acquire are...
Looks like damage from a coin roll wrapping machine to me.
And the zinc is breaking down. Zinc is quite sensitive to the environment and moisture really affects it. And "moisture" includes humidity. US...
Ow! Ow! Ow! THAT'S the Snow variety (S-3) I'm looking for. It's the only one of the 9 varieties that is considered a business strike and not a...
And on the other side of the coin (sorry about that) many higher grade coins get cracked out and resubmitted (sometimes multiple times) with the...
Good point. But storage must have been particularly bad OR the coins got caught in a flood.
And as I understand it the heat generated from friction creates a small ridge perpendicular to the scratches where they end.
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