It's very aerodynamic.
Seems pretty picky on the 1854 (someone breathed on it) and then not so picky on the trade dollar. Nice varied group of coins.
I knew going in that they imaged them in the slabs (NGC does too) but the examples I saw were not this bad. Granted, it's tough to photograph a...
I just got around to reading that. Maybe it will get their attention if you tell them that facilitating the sale of counterfeit numismatic items...
So why report it to a major publication?
There was a recent thread somewhere with the same thing. Someone tracked it down to the exact wording printed on an old coin album that...
Did I read that correctly? One "victim" bought five of them, all from the same seller, all with the same cert #? What makes them think they're...
Update: Images were finally uploaded today, and holy crap they are horrible. In the slabs, glare on the slabs, not even straight overhead. Oh...
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Is that other black stuff that not on the coin inside the holder??
I am also using them for the first time, actually first time grading anything. You can see my timeline here...
Looks like split plating doubling or MD to me. Full images of the coin would help since we don't know what the date is. It's doubled die, by the way.
I can't vouch for that bit about returning them of course, just found it searching for "DRITANNIAR".
I wasn't saying that's what I think it is, just guessing what the TPG said, since the topic is your disappointment with them. I thought it was UNC...
A worldofcoins post says "The whole mintage (10 188) with the wrong inscription was sent to Cyprus. Of these, 6160 were returned to London when...
I feel like it's something obnoxious like UNC Details - Environment Damage.
It's true that some contemporary counterfeits are worth more than their real counterpart in a similar condition, but not because they're "better...
Cool find, hope someone finds it. Strictly speaking yes, one out of 17576 for those random letters to come up in order. But some letters are not...
The CC is too big.
So, what was the mood in England among these coin/token/medal makers in 1783? Here we have a "triumphant George" coin made in 1783 England, and...
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