Basically, I guess I've just observed that these often seem to show strike weakness in some areas, sometimes not perfectly centered, etc. They...
I would think the planchet was defective. A lot of these are pretty crude. Very interesting.
Hello Hugestuff, welcome to CT. Looks to me like the 1880S just squeaks out an F12. The 1889 looks AU in the pic to me....
Neat find, I agree with it grading in the XF40 range. They made a lot of this date though, so probably worth melt (approx. $6.00), plus a...
MS64 for this date. Edit: attractive, but I agree with the comments that the color is iffy.
Entry Post A greedy old pirate from Spain, Had nothing but coins on his brain. Too much gold for the trip, He went down with his ship,...
AU 50
Nice coin, nice date to have. I need a few more seated halves. :)
VF20 easy, a bit more wouldn't surprise me.
Wild guess XF45
Hello James, looks like there is something there but not my area of knowledge. Maybe others will chime in. I suspect that one poster here hasn't...
My first thought was natural toning...though I reckon there's generally room for debate on toning.
Horse - 1900 Lafayette Commem Oxen - Oregon Trail Half
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The Flowing Hair Dollar is awesome! I don't expect to ever own one but I like looking at them!
Neat, historical, old coins, even if they don't have a lot of $ value. Nice to keep them in the family.
@DBinSV, you might get more response if you posted your coins in the world coins section.
The bottom one looks like a coin of Sigismund III. So Polish, I believe. Maybe a quarter Thaler?
MS64 Its a good looking coin. From the pics I can see where the high AU opinions are coming from though. I'm just guessing for fun, I'm not sure...
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