Ow! Was the box punctured? I had a USPS box show up once with a hole in it and a smashed slab inside. The priority mail insurance covered...
Corrosion from some sort of hostile environment (a sneeze?) or chemicals left behind from a cleaning.
Looks like a "spielmark" or "spiel marke" -- German term for play money, typically used as a game token. Designs of U.S. gold coins were often...
From my prime number set: [IMG]
That reminds me. I need to get the latest Zombucks.
I have to wonder if the engravers at the mint that actually have talent feel insulted when committees mostly lacking people with artistic talent...
And here I thought it was a tribute to a certain someone's language skills.
Not buying every (fill in your favorite rare coin here that has experienced dramatic appreciation over the past 20 years) I could find 20 years...
Well, it won't come back as an 84-S. That much I can guarantee. My gut's telling me AU details, cleaned.
For me, unspotted coins in plain old MS/PR69 holders are preferred. They're far less expensive, essentially of identical quality to the 70s, and...
Probably higher AU grade. Stand the coin up on a white piece of paper, look down on the coin, and see if you see a gray stripe from Liberty's...
Polished. The luster in the open parts of the field is gone, while it's still present in the protected area around the stars, letters, and...
Swab the 17-S and 18-S with some acetone. That might take a lot of the black gunk off of them.
This is one of those "AU62" coins. I don't see wear or bad hits, but at first glance it looks AU.
You need to have 2-4 inches into the coin itself on the entire field of both sides for PL, and I'm not sure you have that on the reverse. At any...
First Strike™ and Early Release™ are designations of PCGS and NGC, respectively that have absolutely nothing to do with which coins were struck...
Not a terribly old holder. Solid blue tag sometime after the "series/coin#" tags.
wut? PCGS Pop Report: 81-S PL: 9091, DMPL 1067 83-O PL: 2454, DMPL 1644 86-P PL: 917, DMPL 838 21-D PL: 36, DMPL 1
I'll use Heritage prices realized and the Greysheet. Bluesheet is mostly sight-unseen pricing, so I don't tend to look at that, as I buy coins...
I like the reverse of A, but I'm not crazy about either obverse.
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