Pretty obvious on that one Bart, that is definitely post strike damage.
It depends on what the coin is. The way the laws are written, for some coins it is forbidden. And for other coins, they can. Example: they (the...
My opinion is that it is a damaged coin and ungradeable. But I agree with MS details.
As for the grade, NGC obviously found it acceptable. But there really is no way to know if they (NGC) considered it a planchet defect or a rim...
Don't misunderstand what they are telling you. A scratch is scratch and it doesn't matter if it occurred at the mint or outside the mint because a...
Uhhhh - hate to tell ya this, but we frown on posting the same thing in multiple threads. And if we find it, we will combine them all into 1...
Unless you can see something I can't, there is no photo to see for the first one. What I know about Greg that maybe you don't is that he searches...
I think it's got some pretty nasty hits on the rev and quite a few small ones on the obv. I couldn't grade it higher than 63. Given the date/mint,...
Looks like a circ business strike to me.
Depends on the person answering the question Mike. But my guess is that most cannot get past that at all. Why ? Because it makes them feel...
Yes, there is a small percentage, maybe 5-10%, of people who buy business strike ASE's that think they have a numismatic premium. But to everybody...
That doesn't really mean anything. It is not uncommon for their pop numbers to be inaccurate. And since Greg, the seller, specializes in these...
No it is not an alright way to do it.
Why ? Because to some people toning is damage. They don't understand that all coins tone eventually. They don't even understand that most of the...
Slider - Your comments are a perfect example of an issue that I have often talked about. That is the improper use, improper use in my opinion...
If they have I can't see it.
And no it's not the ANACS slabs themselves causing the toning either. Toning is kind of a hit & miss proposition, some coins just tone faster than...
I have a copy of an article written by Lantz on the subject. Those who want to read it, send me a PM with your email address and I'll send it you....
Fair enough. Contact marks on planchets can occur during the annealing process. But even so, that is still just 1 of the dozens of ways that a...
I'd say your both right. Yes there were Treasury releases in the '50s & '60s. But all of the GSA sales took place in the '70s. edit - and keemao,...
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