Marked "Best Answer". I'd have been hard pressed to guess the slabbers saw an MS65 coin here from pics alone.
Just a reminder - don't let toning distract you from surface details. Some of these coins literally sat in wet burlap sacks for 60 years at the...
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This is one of the larger So-Called Dollars that is also catalogued as a US Mint issue. The seller didn't know what he had and sold it for under...
Some of the exceedingly low mintage So-Called Dollars can still be grabbed for a song. Good find!
I'm also happy that I guessed this right. Beautiful coin, even cooler story. Do you have a tutorial link for how to do the "click here for the...
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The Morgans were referred to as "Bland Dollars" at the time of their inception (after the Bland Act). They were not well liked by collectors or...
You're thinking "cleaned"? What details grade would you assign? Also, is the 8 normal for these? It just looks wrong somehow. Like a knob to the...
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Shot with a 16mp camera in HDR mode. Not sure what more you want?
Yes. They were 90% until the crisis of 1907, and 75% until 1945. US Philippine coins were exchangeable for US coinage at a fixed rate of 1 peso:...
I recently picked up a type set folder. The seller's pics were lousy, so I paid based on VF grade for the two most valuable items (which seem...
I'll leave this open for a while. But, let me say, no one has guessed this yet. And there's no trick (like a "details", "cleaned", or "grafitti"...
Tested with a toothpick, and the stray curl in the 6 is not a loose piece.
That's one awesome set of clashes!
62 is mega harsh on that. Wow. Beautiful coin!
I tried to post a short coin turn video, but the mp4 file extension isn't recognized. Hmm. May try to see if I can get my phone to shoot in a...
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Bumping this. Any other opinions?
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