PCI has had more lives than a cat, and only those slabs with the font matching yours are considered desirable and generally graded correctly....
Can't tell on the obverse at all, but the reverse has that AU look to it, so I'm going to give the 1990ish PCI the benefit of the doubt here.
Nice looking coin. I can't read the obverse surfaces very well based on the type of picture taken, but 63-64 looks reasonable from here.
I would probably not bother grading this one. There is almost no price difference from 61-63, and I don't see this grading 64. The strike-thru...
I don't want to make this sounds like an "I told you so" post, but here's what I see. [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] $5000 gross sales for a big ad?...
XF45 cleaned.
Machine doubling. Look how the secondary image on both As in AMERICA is squashed and a little larger than the primary A.
If you can't decide, perhaps it would be best to buy neither, and instead look for a problem free coin that doesn't make you want to buy a problem...
$200 is fair for a problem free VF20. The price curve is pretty flat into lower grades, so saying to pay VG10 money wouldn't discount it much....
[ATTACH] Here's the full-size crop from the original image showing the most legible of the coins on the chalice. The size of this image (click to...
Tail bar (VAM 4)! Beat-up VF20, +/- cleaning.
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