Hard to tell if toning or rub on the top of the eagle's wings. So au58 or ms63.
You should check out the Post your Lincolns thread! Lots of cool toning cents there! Watch out for pareidolia as you will see lots of things on...
Well it depends on which half you are asking about. :) 1/2 is still on the coin the other 1/2 has been polished off the die so is "gone".
Use a plain sheet of white paper and move it around behind the coin to bounce your light onto the coin from a different angle and you will lose...
Paul nailed it right out of the gate. But most of you were spot on or 1 grade off. As stated previously proof coins are tough to photograph and...
Watch me..."what you want" :troll:
Possibly but if a pin, then not really a medal or token...would be like a Masonic pin or Rotary Club pin, albeit much more sinister...
Kelly they did make silver quarters in 1994 but they were proof and have an s mint mark. Yours is a D and so out of luck there. Most likely as the...
Not sure I am following your logic...there is a market for your item. Like most things, condition, rarity and demand will drive the sale price.
Yes weighing it on a gram scale accurate to 2 decimal places would be ideal.
Are these the slabs they call soap bars? Because it is about the size of a hotel soap bar.
The only thing harder than trying to grade a proof coin from photos is taking decent photos of a proof coin in a slab. These need work but I think...
Just look at the Australia $50 note as a recent example!
Kelly if these have special meaning to you such as given to you by someone special then it would be worth it to put them in a cardboard 2 x 2...
It is PMD. Meaning post mint damage. The term covers everything that happens once the coin exits the minting chamber. The coin could have fallen...
Yep, just keeping it "numismatic as possible". Actually, the General Discussion forum is specifically for non numismatic topics...
MS66
Rather a crude and poorly executed design on cheap materials. Really has no numismatic value what so ever. Only worth the historic context....
Something to self flagellate?
What's going on right now is partly due to some that have apparently not learned from the past.
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