Looks to me like polishing compound. Someone rubbed some kind of polishing compound on it years ago, then gave it a quick wipe that didn't remove...
Nothing wrong with nice circulated coins. They were made with a job to do and they have clearly done their duty with honor.
Doesn't help much when you measure your capped bust half and find they vary between 32.2 to 32.9 mm (Standard is 32.5mm). 32 mm is too small and...
Gasparro's design actually is closer to a cross between the Peace dollar and Joseph Wrights 1793 Liberty cap half cent. Wright took his...
I list about 23 generations of PCGS production slabs. (That doesn't include all the different variations of specialty labels that can be found....
Partial collar strike, also known as a railroad rim from it's resemblance to the wheel of a railroad car. This is a very nice example. The first...
Only three people outbid me. Four way snipefest in the last five seconds taking it from $112 to $207.
Tried and missed.
Yeah you hear that a lot. Apparently all the gradable coins were all slabbed long ago and no one is submitting coins to the TPG's anymore. This...
Typically yes it is since it is punched in by hand and hubbed into the die with a multi-ton press. Start with a die that has the mintmark weakly...
The open collar is the real problem for airtites, albums etc on the early coins. Due to the open collar all the coins are different sizes so you...
I'd probably get a copy of Noyes if I didn't have to buy it as a set with the middle date book. I tend to prefer Wright's The Cent Book for the...
Verdegris is a corrosion product of copper, usually copper carbonate or copper chloride, sometimes copper acetate. What is seen on coins is...
I don't need a slab to assure me what the grade of my coin is either.
If the seller is legitimate, I wonder what he thinks of his retirement investment now. Yes it is still a good return on his investment(7% per...
I'm not sure but I think it's the same die as well. To strike almost 28 million coins there should be a lot more than two dies. More like 140 to...
I've lost the library once and rebuilt that. If I lost my whole collection I would probably collect again, but probably not the same way.
Thought of another one, but it might have been stolen rather than just disappeared. A 1902 proof V nickel. Vanished some thirty years ago. So...
Actually that more closely resembles Frank Gasparro's obverse design for the small dollar (that was later dumped for SBA).
Sure, you married her precious baby girl so by definition you can't be good enough for her because no one could be good enough. You also replaced...
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