Beautiful wreath cent, kanga! Congrats on the acquisition, that is a big purchase!
Looks like a nice original coin! I suspect it was net graded to 35 for the obverse marks, but I really like it!
I'm thinking 35, very nice rims for such a large heavy coin
I would recommend the certified route also as many of them have been messed with (cleaned, filed rims) and if you don't know what to look for you...
When someone mentions "one thin dime" I think that's what they are talking about.
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thanks! I love 'em too and a set of the early dates in F-VF (working on it) is real easy on the eyes.
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[IMG] [IMG] Besides being a CC dollar, one of the rev. chops is an unusual cartouche type, with the design incuse into the metal rod used to make...
Looks like a nice original F12 to me.
See Roger Burdette's post on page 3 of this thread on the NGC forum for a clear explanation of Longacre doubling:...
John Feigenbaum was the founder of David Lawrence Rare Coins, now run by his son. He wrote a number of reference works on Barber Coins also. I...
That's a beautiful coin. and mysterious!
I once had EMR privileges for Trade Dollars and it worked pretty well. Ebay has pretty much given up on the auction model and is leaving it as a...
years ago I bought one of the lesser '72 DDO's on Teletrade and will be forever buried in that coin. Later I learned that there was more than 1...
I have a hard time seeing it as better than F-12 (ANA) but pride of ownership gets it to F15 and greed of sellership gets it to VF-20!:playful:
:)Good thing you haven't paid yet. If eBAy wants evidence you can point them to this thread...
That's what I thought unless you had more than one seller ID! He's asking about double what he bought it for. (assuming a "he").
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