This one looks OK to me. Probably cleaned, but it's an old cleaning, and the coin has retoned. It might not straight-grade at a TPG, but I think...
+1 ditto. Even if it's real (about which I have serious doubts), it has that overscrubbed, harshly cleaned look. Real or fake, it's a hard...
I'd give it a gentle rub with Vaseline and a paper towel to remove some of the grime. Not a hard rub, obviously. You want to leave the color...
(I removed your duplicate thread.) That doesn't look too bad for a filler coin. I'd say it grades somewhere between Poor-01 and Fair-02, so it's...
Chris Scarre's Chronicle of the Roman Emperors was my go-to information source when I started collecting their coins. I really enjoyed that book...
Dunno ‘bout any pins, but my jaw certainly did!
Good for you; you did the right thing. (And that was clever how you “read” the bad picture.) I too would have thrown a crumb to the guy who sold...
If it's strictly for bullion purposes, I like so called "junk" silver (especially Merc dimes and silver Washingtons). And World stuff, though...
Yes. At least 66, if not 67.
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Yes, welcome to CT, @Victor123. I hope you didn't spend big money on that.
The "O" mintmark in this case probably means, "Oh, it's from Beijing."
Hey, I've seen the Chinese make a Silver Eagle with a 1901 date, so why not?
Love it! I'm crazy 'bout a Monitor (to heavily paraphrase Country singer Alan Jackson, who was crazy 'bout Mercuries).
That's how I like my circulated silver to look, as you likely know.
The more I look at the coin in the OP, the more suspicious I become of it. Agreed. Hard pass on this one.
Aha. Here 'tis. Bought this raw. Note the original toning. It came back VF35 from PCGS. https://www.pcgs.com/cert/46510053 [IMG]
In any event, even if it's real, I do not find this one to be particularly eye-appealing. At best, it's been cleaned and has a dull look to it....
Agreed. I'm not qualified to speak on this one. Be very, very careful with raw Trade dollars, Indian $2.50 coins, I've heard, and of course key...
I guess those two must have come out of the same collection the shop brought in, and somebody wasn't paying attention...
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