Don't know what to say COnder except that my information says otherwise. Even the US Treasury and the US Mint say otherwise.
If there was wouldn't we all be rich already ?
Sounds like an Austrian coin, post a pic.
That depends entirely on who is doing the grading. FB = Full Split Bands NGC - all 3 horizontal bands on the fasces must have clear and...
Apparently you figured it out ;)
Yes, almost 30 million of them.
NCS cannot repair damage. They can only remove contaminants from the surface of the coin. And if the coin previously had tape on it - you wouldn't...
Absolutely ! Counterfeit coins have been around as long coins have.
Same for them.
Numbers used to run at about 0.05% getting the 70 grade. But with changes PCGS has made recently I suspect it may be up to around 5% now.
The numbers in parenthesis indicate the mintage of Proofs.
Gotcha :thumb:
Cloud - prior to the existence of the US Mint the Spanish dollar had long been accepted, in fact preferred by many, as the offical coinage of the...
Paul - a question for you. Becuase I don't think a lot of folks understand what you are doing here. Are you actually entering these as a set in...
I would say it's VF but there is not a doubt in my mind that PCGS would slab that coin XF45.
borg - it's really simple. There are no letters on the encasement blank before is placed around the coin. So the encasement blank is struck with a...
Enough already. I tried to be nice - didn't want to listen apparently.
That depends on how define highly dipped. They will not slab a coin that has been over-dipped. But if a coin is dipped properly so that it does...
Still don't get it do you ? Of course the buyer's fees are not inside the bid - they aren't supposed to be. They are separated so the seller...
Let's put it this way, if it's not MS it's very close. It's either AU58 or MS64.
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