Looks XF-AU. Do you have reverse pics?
Yes. FS-101. The doubling you see on the reverse is "Longacre doubling", which isn't really doubling as much as it is an outline of design...
Herewith I post my response to someone who asks a question about something which they don't know about and refuses to accept the answer from those...
Nice set of coins!
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I would prefer to look at a bunch of coins in person and pick the nicest one. If you go sight-unseen and take "whatever" from somewhere, I'd...
Saving the biggest one for last flies in the face of the occasional "buy the keys first" advice I hear, but I see a couple advantages in waiting....
There's currently almost no premium for Saints up to MS64, and MS65 is not much more than those. There are plenty out there in both grades for...
Not to hijack the thread, but there was a discussion elsewhere about which forum had the best software. This one came up and I figured I'd take a...
F15. The vertical hairlines on the obverse may be cleaning, and they may be an artifact of the fact that you have a single light at a fairly low...
Congrats!
The occurrence of like-graded coins in Heritage auctions over the past year will give you a pretty good indication of how likely you are to see...
For coins that are not Important Coins or from Important Collections, both PCGS and NGC will play it conservative when it comes to crossovers....
It'll be interesting and not unprecedented if we see them being coined into some sort of medal.
I'll invoke a question that comes up on VAMWorld now and then when someone posts something that's improbable. "Did you poke it with a stick?" By...
Another opportunity would be to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Les Paul by making guitar-shaped coins. If it's good enough for...
Not sure if "good value" means they're expected to increase in value or if it simply means a nice "bang-for-the-buck" coin for a collection. How...
I'd be surprised if it changed in 99, since I would think that would mess up vending machines.
You need to think about promotional prospect for these. Slab labels, signatures, the first coin struck in color, cross-licensing opportunities,...
Probably one of the more stable isotopes of unobtainium.
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