Aren't you kind of contradicting yourself there in regard to the amount of wear on the drapery ? If the coin has very little wear why would you...
Ever hear of clipping jakal ? It is quite likely that the underweight, genuine examples have been clipped. And if you look at their edges closely...
jakal - what I have told you about ducats is 100% accurate. If you took 1000 genuine examples and weighed each and every one - every single one of...
It is a 1/2 reale from the Lima mint struck sometime between 1684 and 1752, probaly one of th eearlier strikings.
Not gonna be a very easy book to find as there were not many copies printed. Mine is the special edition, leather bound, signed and limited to 250...
Yes.
I was just providing 1 possible scenario, they could just as easily have been lost by accident and thus end up in the ground. But I do understand...
I trust your judgement Mark, but I have seen them grade AU coins as 64. I rather think plenty of others here have also. But as you said...
Just about anybody could be responsible for them being in the ground. Think about it - what do you do with a pice of junk ? You throw it away. And...
While you and others may have found it interesting, there are those who have complained about this thread and reported it. Keep in mind that not...
Similar to what I thought until I looked closer. In my opinion it's not chatter and hits, for there is some but not much. Instead look closely at...
Not so old, that coin was graded between late '99 and March 2000. And I would agree with the grade assigned by them. I think that in recent...
And everybody always likes this one -
Here's a couple pics of coins from that 1911 Proof set to show off the color -
Based on just a quick look I would be of the opinion that those are 2 cast fakes. Now I don't have my books handy or anything else to be able to...
No, they don't care whether you depend on them or not. You as the buyer are the only one who should care. You see, I don't care how many books you...
It's an American Silver Eagle, nothing unusual except the color and I kind of like that :thumb:
Correct.
No, you graded it OK. The dealer was net grading the coin (downgrading it) because he knows it is a problem coin (cleaning & shellac).
Two I would recommend highly - Encyclopedia of US Gold Coins 1795-1933 by Garret & Guth. And - Early US Gold Coin Varieties - A Study of Die...
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