In all honesty, the 2nd set confirms, for me anyway, what I suspected based on the first pics but couldn't tell for sure. That is that the coin is...
Actually I wanted to see the whole coin, not just the reverse. I wanted to see that because of the marks I could see in the blow-ups and I wante...
Below is a list of the special designations and their requirements. BN = Brown 95% or more of the coin is brown RB = Red Brown 6% or...
I'm not so sure it is AT. The colors fade correctly, the spots of different color under the darker color, the way the luster shines through -...
As I have said many times - pretty much anybody would. Never forget this - which coin would you be more likely to examine closely to see if it...
Dealing with personal issues I imagine.
Thanks for that, will tuck it away in the memory banks :thumb:
It might, but it might not as well. To me the question is - is it worth trying ? To know that, we need to see the rest of the coin.
The best way I know of is to ask for recommendations from other collectors. Your going to get a lot of names, but the ones that pop up repeatedly...
I would say that any TPG meets what you were asking about BNB. Of course some are better than others. But that is what they do - review the coin...
Stop by any jewelry store and ask them to weigh it, report the weight to the nearest hundreth gram, like this xx.xx grams.
I would say that you are correct to a degree. However, bull markets tend to bring the coins out and make them available. The beginning of bear...
Sure wouldn't go THAT far Frank. More like your neighborhood cop.
You can look it up on Heritage easy enough.
As with anything else, it's a matter of definitions and opinion. What you (or another) might consider to be flaming or attacking, may not be what...
No, there was a gold 2 ducat coin of that design issued in 1642.
If it was fake they wouldn't slab it at all, so I'd say it's in a Genuine holder with harsh cleaning and tooled notations.
Based on what I can see in the pics the rev does have some hairlines that might lead some to think the coin had been improperly cleaned. Of course...
Please post pics of the side of both coins. They do appear to be genuine and the 1669 coin is also countermarked. I'll try and look that up as well.
If I disagreed with that I wouldn't have made the warning I did in this thread.
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