My grades (not theirs) - 64, 63 (PL ? ehhhhh, maybe) and 64. The last one, combined the 3 areas of rim dings kill it for me, especially the bad...
Shhhhhhhhh ! Don't be giving them any ideas ! :rolleyes:
As for the brown, my guess would be that the coin was dipped long ago to remove heavy brown toning. Again I'm guessing, but the green looks like...
Not true. Not even close to true. The softest cloth in the world will absolutely leave hairlines on a clad coin.
Especially when ya count the fakes :D
Just pointing out what some folks never realize Matt that's all.
Yes it is. Unfortunately not everyone looks at it the same way you say you do. It is extremely common for just about everybody to take pictures...
Type is one of the few words in numismatics where its meaning changes depending upon the context in which it is being used. When used as type 1 or...
All business strike SBA's are the same type. And there are a few varieties within that type. While it is true that many numismatic terms are used...
That's kind of the thing about dealers though. It doesn't matter who it is, there are going to be both good and bad reports. Any dealer or company...
It is also full of even higher numbers of "bait fish" who swim around blissfully ignorant just waiting for the sharks to come and eat them ;)
What's serious value ? To you it might be $1000 or more, to me it might be $100 or more, to somebody else it might be over $10,000 - $100,000...
Read the link that Books posted, that explains the difference between Grey and Blue.
Savy, a point that no one has mentioned yet is this, and I would strongly consider it to be the first step in what you are considering. That would...
Yeah, ebay was established in '95, in the founder's living room. Even for the entire year of 1996 ebay only had a total of 250,000 items listed....
The point is that there is a HUGE difference between cleaned, and harshly cleaned. The coin was slabbed by NGC. There are millions and millions...
Put it on ebay Matt. Probably the rarest thing on the planet !
I'll apologize in advance for sidetracking your thread, but you got your answer and I just can't resist posting this. Got a devil inside me...
What else do you want to know George ? There's not much more that can be said other than what has already been said.
No doubt of that, but that's the way it has been for as long as coins have existed, and yet they're still here. Why ? Because of people like us....
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