If you take the time to do your own grading on these, then take really good pics of your coins and post here on CT.... and ask members to grade...
P. S. Everyone who seriously collects or collects maybe not so seriously, but over a long period of time, will have their learning experiences....
Here is a learning experience. Find a good grading book with photos, your money will be well spent if you get a good one. Then take each and every...
looks like the special bus hit it. :borg: spend it and make the others in that year more special
@fish4uinmd that is a beauty! Is that a bit of toning on the obverse, or just the photo?
I was at a coin show yesterday, first one in about a year, and looking for something to catch my eye that was 'affordable', higher quality,...
Well, regardless of what people collect, I will likely surprise them with things outside their interests. Because I enjoyed a coin show today and...
Yah. If you find out that they play eeny, meeny, miny, moe for the grading or authenticity then that would not be good...... oops! secret's out!...
Add'l: it may not turn an unc to a circ grade (AU59 and below) outright though....i.e. having a fingerprint on a coin does not automatically kick...
Fingerprints can affect and lower a grade. Uncirculated coins are MS60 - MS70. An uncirculated coin with a fingerprint can get above a MS65, but...
Let's see it head on, not angled, and see if you can also get a good closeup of what you see doubled.
what the others said... very plausible
My best guess is that without pics there will be no best guess.
Here is my take on this, and I welcome any corrections or additional details others more knowledgeable than I can provide. According to the bits...
What a waste of $99 Zimbabwe.
Congrats!
[IMG] not mine ^^ but I do have three I bought. Still dreaming of finding one in the wild, even if substantially lower grade....
Coin roll hunting can be great fun and it forces you to pay attention to the coin, if you are looking to possibly score something cool or...
So am I..... I knew about the condition, but trying to prove what was bad about this one made me delve deeper both online and with the books I...
looks like you have pictured one of each...
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