Paddys example looks pretty smooth but I guess it could be the photos.
Do you have access to a scale that weighs to the nearest gram? It looks very thin, I am definitely leaning towards @paddyman98 answer.
I think it is a magicians coin. See the extra rim on the obverse.
I am also having a hard time finding any doubling,
Yes, but it would not have left any raised metal.
@Ethan.Pitassi And that's exactly what you got, answers to your original question. A business strike, why would your business strike coin have a...
To me it is like Chris said, there is a push of metal towards the bottom of the scratch. also in some of the areas of the Hair, it looks as if the...
I am in the same boat, nothing to me screams fake.
And just like that @Ethan.Pitassi is long gone, from both threads he was participating in. I really had hoped that he would stick around. I wasn't...
I just picked up my fourth or fifth 81S the other day, an S/S right haven't vamped it yet, But when I saw it I had to have it.:)
I didn't see this one coming in at a 63. I like these crescent toned coins. Your last photo does show a lot more luster in the toning. I am still...
Tell us why that is a proof. It doesn't look like a proof. I see thin and not squared off rims, It doesn't show mirrored surfaces, nor a cameo...
I don't get into the Indians too often, but it looks like a business strike.
You can have it your way and I and the community will have it ours, But really don't you think that there would be more of these certified if they...
San Francisco made both circulation strikes and proofs 68-70, what you need to look for is mirrored surfaces, and I am not seeing any in the above...
This is from a Heritage auction. And if you read through all the Notations in each auction that Heritage has had, You can gain a little more...
Has to be a misprint in coinfacts. http://m.pcgscoinfacts.com/Coin/Detail/3282
You are missing it, the SMS is 30 sets. Proof 2.6 Billion. And the proofs have no resemblance to the SMS.
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Just machine doubling, Tell us how a 9 or a 6 in the area of the MM can happen at the mint? Those numbers are 3-5 times the size of a MM, How can...
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