They can ask anything they want for them, but that doesn't make them worth it.
I am leaning towards an S MM. Although searching thru some G-04. I could see it as a tossup with the grader. All the MM placements are pretty well...
So, the initials are VDB, not DVB. As said above, can either be a grease filled situation or a weakly struck cent.
There are obvious signs of circulation on your coin even thru the flip. Nice coin for a Dansco or a folder, but not worth the fees to have it graded.
At 5 cents apiece I would be a buyer. But the unsearched only goes so far. A local dealer buys the old partially filled whittmaan folders. He...
What are the pickups? Is it a bit mushy, what gives it away?
That didn't leave the mint like that. Whatever it is happened after it left the mint. PMD
$240 each for circulated and some damaged Morgans?
I hear ya, gotta figure the wear and flattening of the devices, too me nothing stands out as an added MM.
It looks to me like the bottom left MM placement of your collage.
I think they nicked that coin because of the thick and hazy perimeter. Awesome coin for the registry, don't blame ya one bit.
So, so vague Yet I like it. Let's not forget, the environment you live in may or may not be the place it ends up, environments play a bigger roll,...
I bet I could make it look like any color of the rainbow. Fact is though, you have an altered coin.
That wasn't an easy MM to identify, What was hard to find was the common denominators. Your detailed photos of the die Scraches on the obv. And...
So what you are saying is that Philly kept the best batches of planchets and sent the rest to Denver? I don't doubt that.
It looks like 015 to me, Die scratches on the neck. MM placement also looks correct.
You actually spent the time to go over his math? I saw all the coins on the scale and said there were too many variables to come up with a correct...
No doubt for me. The Pastel toner has the best eye appeal. Early die state with nice frosty luster and a good strike.
The photo below shows copper in the recesses of the reeding. It's a plated quarter. [IMG]
It has a beveled rim. Not a proof.
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