You photos are pixelized making it impossible to see the detail we need to grade your coin. Can you get better photos? What ISO are you using?...
I am leaning toward genuine but some features trouble me. Take a look at the raised lump on the I of UNITED on the reverse. There appears to also...
Cool. I wish I could run across deals like that.
That would be cumbersome. The coin would not change but its descriptor would. It seems to me it would be easier to assign a grade to a coin which...
How did you get this box?
Nice looking Liberty Nickel except for the spots. It looks MS to me. What do you mean the cent planchet "is just a ground down penny". Do you...
I think you're gonna need to post a pic. It does not sound like a coin to me. BTW, welcome to CoinTalk.
And you thought grading is complicated now. You ain't seen nothin' yet! What would a grading system like what you propose do to the price...
This is an contemporary counterfeit 1860 3 Cent Silver made from hand-cut dies. At first glance the coin may appear to be genuine (helped by the...
I don't follow these. Maybe that is a good price. I'm sure there are price guides for them somewhere.
That is part of the holder, not rim damage.
Silver spot is about $17.50. You paid a hefty 100% markup from melt value. I have no idea if that is reasonable or if there is much of a market...
It will be great for coins with rim dings at any of those four prongs. It will make it impossible to photograph a coin in the slab without...
Have we beaten this horse to death?
Hmmm. If you read The Official American Numismatic Association Grading Standards for United States Coins (6th Edition) you would find this under...
"Average circulated"?
That's a good point. Zinc is used on galvanized steel pipe. I hate to tell you but this pipe - with its coating of zinc - rusts like he11 on the...
I wonder if he collects Early US Commemoratives. My example is the lowest grade I have ever seen for a Lafayette Dollar.
I fixed it. I had added brackets around it and that screwed it up.
I'll accept that zinc is more reactive than copper (but I'll try to remember to verify this later). I do not accept that copper is "very...
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