Whoa. I think that's the first shield-cent clash I've ever noticed, never mind that it's spectacularly noticeable...
The eternal refrain: "Someone spent that?!"
Hoping to see that translation from the native speaker by and by... :)
There'd be a certain amount of negotiation involving my wife.
We aren't allowed to say on this forum. ;)
It'll have an actual chain of stone blocks.
So are the rest of the letters, I think.
I remember the show "Six Million Dollar Man", but "Six Hundred Dollar Balls" just doesn't have quite the same ring.
They carry dust and grit.
That's damage I could probably live with on a type coin. In this specific context, I don't know how much of an edge ding @dcarr's restriking...
This isn't really a question of good or bad photography, though. It's strictly a visual-perception/optical-illusion thing. When you see a photo...
I'm pretty sure that the scratches are in the same direction (into the coin) as the design elements, because they're shadowed the same way. In...
I hope you also meant to say "unused"...
I see... a scratched-up coin. But I don't see any spots where the gouges carry metal into the incuse design elements, and that makes me wonder if...
On a $5 Indian, though, the flats on the die are LOWERED, not raised. It's an incuse design.
I do IT work. It's not hard to manage traffic differently for different IP addresses. It's also not hard to design for scaling, to gracefully...
That 1903 half is high VF details. You'd have no problem flipping it for a profit somewhere like eBay. A lot of collector view "details" as a...
I haven't seen anything that makes me think they're competent enough to pull that off.
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