No. It's scratched and harshly cleaned.
I find it a little hard to believe that those would be electrode spots. Surely anyone with enough knowledge to set up electronic toning would have...
Yeah, yeah... [IMG]
Authentication. "Damaged" does not mean "valueless", at least to a significant subset of collectors, and a damaged rare coin is more valuable than...
Just remember: eBay draws thousands of clueless sellers, with no idea how much their stuff is actually worth. Mostly, this means over-priced junk...
I see dark spots on walls where plastic touches them because of mold or mildew, which isn't typically a problem for coins (thank goodness)....
Dude! Why are you wasting your time here, instead of hitting up eBay to top off your retirement fund? :rolleyes: :troll:
In other news, Generalisimo Francisco Franco is still dead. [MEDIA]
Yes, a learning opportunity. Take a close look at that reverse; that's a classic, if a bit exaggerated, example of "sinking devices", where the...
Good choice!
They don't. I'm sorry I wasn't clearer in my post. NGC and PCGS will optionally put a letter grade on detail coins, at least for some coins....
A few more notes: PCGS and NGC (I think) give you the option of having a letter grade appear on a details slab, or just having the slab say...
Sharper and larger pictures will help, but this looks like it might be acid damage. Welcome to CoinTalk!
What do you like to observe? The "moon permitting" comment makes me think of extended objects rather than planets, multiple stars, or variables...
I would've jumped on that at a dollar. I'd study the date at great length to see if I could nail it down. If it's just not possible, I'd give it a...
If I ever thought there was an event so sad or tragic that someone wouldn't try to make a buck off of it, the "9/11 commemorative" painted coins...
If you're spending thousands on coins, shell out tens of dollars for capsules or soft archival flips. Better albums (like Dansco) won't degrade...
Yeah, I had that experience with another dollar coin, although it was worth it to get the last of the goo off that one. It appears that this coin...
Hard to rule out anything from this, except a 4 seems unlikely. And, of course, 0, 1, and 2 are right out.
Looks more like a 5 than any other digit to me. But we're deep in "seeing-what-we-want-to-see" territory here...
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