Or a dream - more specifically a nightmare.
Then it's a strike through.
About 260 million.
The mint doesn't buy coins, or at least they never have in the past.
The digital fingerprinting that PCGS Expert system was supposed to be able to do back in 1991, and which they say they are doing on the Secure...
Even SMS coins can have slight mis-aligned dies.
Sir is also the title used to address Knights. In England when someone is honored by being made a Knight, say John Smith was Knighted, his title...
From what I see it is most likely an SMS coin.
And it was a good thing they had to. When Assayer Albion Cox died in office in 1795 they had to close up his accounts and they discovered a...
They also tend to hold back some to use as replacements for damaged/lost ones. Some of those may have been released from the backup hold.
Of course I have to wonder, Breen called them 70's, when did he write that? Is it possible they WEREN'T spotted when he saw them? Remember he's...
My advice would be to sell it to one of those shops as a matte proof then. if they think it is. I don't. They may SAY they think it is a matte...
Can't help you. I paid attention to the slabs themselves not the grades or grades assigned. They didn't interest me.
It's not an error, and I am sure.
But what you are seeing at the mouth, below the jaw, near the rim both in front and behind the bust, possibly along the left rim on the reverse...
There is ALWAYS a lot, and the more you learn, the more you find that you don't know.
Yes it was an old post, but it was brought back to life by john1397 and your advice was good for him.
Because this dealer has a habit of sell problem coins with deceptive images that hide the problems. I also note that nowhere in the auction does...
corrosion/carbon spots
On another forum I suggested the Mint's bulk purchase program where he could literally buy a ton of them, an entire ballistic bag. Of course...
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