That's what I was afraid of. The lower (dark coin images) look pretty good just dark, The upper images look horribly unnatural and harshly...
No, it might bring more if it was, but nowhere close to what it would cost to get it certified.
Depends on which image is the before and which is after.
In the first footnote he does mention Director Grant so it probably is the mint director he is referring to.
I agree with Collectingnut, the first image (the one furham enlarged and realigned) is a CAM. The other two rev imaged appear to be WAM.
Only two I believe. If you buy a high enough NGC level account you get enough "free vouchers" to equal what you paid for the membership (but all...
You did note I said they were unknown to the numismatic community. Sure the ex-mint worker know about them but no one else. And yes the fact he...
Yes finding LOTS, like zero.
Probably a regular copper plated zinc cent that has had the plating removed. You remove the plating and the coin is silver colored. If you...
White spots that tend to develop on .999 fine silver bullion coins. They are suspected to be the result of improperly rinsed planchets after the...
Possibly milk spots? If so they are probably permanent.
A straight on image of the rev would be helpful. I see two things that make me suspect it is a fake. I have seen that high rim fin on the rev on...
At least 2. Two previously unknown, to the numismatic community, coins appeared on the market in 2017. They were in the estate of a former mint...
More than likely it is just a private label for a bulk submitter. I'd say your dealer is lying. I don't think any silver eagle has ever sold for...
They also used the red insert on the Palau Coca-Cola bottle cap coin.
Back when they had a specific link for reporting fake coins they had a text box that allowed up to 10K characters for describing the problem.
If you mean the breast of the caribou that appears to be a scratch.
The images aren't clear, but from what I see I suspect we may be seeing either shear lines from the punching of the blank, or scrapes formed on...
Metal flowlines from die wear.
1793 was the first year that coins were issued under the Constitution (The 1787 Fugio was also a US coin but issued under private contract and...
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