There arw whole threads on the cleaning correctly versus harsh cleaning. Conserving, restoring, cleaning correctly are all synonyms for the same...
Mabe the letters got mashed in circulation and now are blobs of metal and not discernable as the letters. There are also stars between the words...
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I believe these are dated 1957 on the obverse but the actual date the coin was minted is inside the star. Mine has a 58 in the star on the reverse...
Without the reed marks below the eye a 66 all day long. I went with 66 anyways because the reverse is so nice!
No die chip on the date but I really like the designs.[ATTACH]
IIRC Dante's inferno has seven levels of Michigan with the lowest level having the dark Lord buried in ice up to his waist. That level is reserved...
Every one of your non-collector friends that got one is one less available for the rest of our collector friends who wanted one but didn't get...
No mint sets for 82 or 83. There were some souvenir sets sold from the mint gift shop but nothing in the usual sense.
$15 for the 3 piece silver mint set is.a decent pick up!
So can 10,000 germs.
Mint state is the term they should use. If someone got them in change or even out of a bank wrapped roll, they got them from circulation.
And the ASE ERP is glorified bullion, IMO. No one "needs" it either.
Uh-oh call me a conspiracy theorist but is this signalling trouble in paradise? My theory is the price is being driven at this point by dealers...
A little weak strike on the drum rim but yes great color. Thanks!
Thanks I got lucky and found it in a 3rd party package cheap and the cardboard holder packaging and heat likely put off gases over a period of time.
Its part of the market manipulation game they are playing.
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They tell them not to slab if they don't grade 70. They get returned to sell raw.
There is absolutely no comparison of a business strike coin struck over 100 years ago for commerce and a coin struck for collectors in 2019. No...
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