The spot is so minor that it isn't important. The significantly better luster outweighs it, in my book. I voted top.
Here's my shilling. I really want to get a milled example (those have fascinated me for a while), but in the meantime here's my hammered VF-30:...
I think it looks like natural toning from a paper envelope. This is a very tricky coin to grade. If the luster is unbroken on the high points, it...
I was just reading that article, and found it to be extremely informative and interesting. I don't really collect ancients, but there are some...
This is a joke. I bought a coin on Ebay that was labelled PL by NGC, and they had affixed a "DMPL" sticker to it (to be clear - I paid a PL price...
Does Larry Briggs even still work for SEGS? I know that he is a dealer, and I've seen him set up at FUN several times (including last month). Have...
Well, I'm glad you are enjoying this hobby! Welcome to the forums, I know that you will learn a lot here.
Looks like your average circulated Cu-Ni Kennedy. Spend it.
Nope.
Grading from those pictures is not a matter of skill, its a matter of luck. If you improve your picture skills, we'll improve our grading skills....
Is Specimen #3 a different variety? Sometimes, when someone discovers a variety and publishes it, people start looking and find a whole bunch of...
I got the grades a few days ago, and I'm kinda disappointed: Nickel: MS-65* 5FS 68D #1: MS-64 68D #2: MS-65 70D: MS-64 PL Walker: MS-65 I...
The Kunsthistorisches in Vienna has a pretty fantastic display of coins. The entire third floor of the museum is coinage.
They'll same day grade whatever anyone wants for whoever wants it. You just have to pay for it. Not many people have coins valuable enough to...
The standards at PCGS and NGC have been fairly consistent throughout their entire existence. There was no "flood of inexperienced graders" - and...
Gradeflation is real. Anyone who doubts it hasn't been paying attention. Just ask the old-timers.
Treat anything graded by SEGS as raw. Sure, Larry Briggs is knowledgeable on Seated material, but his grading is.... less so.
I think you need a photo-editing software suite which has a circle crop feature..... For example, in photoshop, this task takes approximately 7...
I don't see anything.
I've seen ICG at our local club show a couple of times, but not consistently (The show is about 60 tables, twice a year). I'm guessing that Randy...
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