As with the OP coin, you are going to see a lot of die cracks and planchet issues with these coins. The mint employees hated making them. Nickel...
It gets under my skin when I had some nice early copper coins that they sent back to me in body bags years ago. Later, after I sold them, I saw...
I have had several of these and have kept up grading. This is the last one, which is the best I've handled. This one is still raw. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Yes, the third "8" is different from the previous two. It makes sense. You make a very good matrix die and leave the last digit off. Then then you...
I have been out of the bulk grading game as a witness for a long time. But from my experience 20+ years ago, the "bell curve grading policy"...
For many years, it has not only been enough to make an MS coin; it's been enough to lift an MS-64 to MS-65 or 66. Sometimes you don't even need...
If it went in an AU-58 holder, it would not stay there for long unless an "end user" collector bought it at a premium. If it really is rubbed, it...
There is too much money to be made from crack-outs for the TPGs and the owners of the coins for that to happen.
This is all very disturbing. I had heard about this “previous owner” stuff, but how many run-of-the-mill Roman coins have a list of owners with...
MS-63. I think that some people are confusing the darker area on the cheek with wear.
When I was a member of the Boston Numismatic Society from the mid 1970s to the 1990s, there was a group of ancient coin collectors who looked down...
I would like to buy it as EF-45 (at 45 money) also since it is at least an AU-50. I'd say from the photo, more like AU-55.
The Coin World author makes a point when he says that there would not have been time in 1816 to have prepared the dies. Yet, the 1816 dies could...
The "doubled area" is flat and not rounded; it's flat. Therefore it is machine doubling. Like it or not, collectors don't pay a premium for that.
Here are photos of a 1969-S Doubled Die Cent from our friends at Heritage Auctions. As you can see, ALL of the letters are doubled, not just the...
If it is in a VG holder, that's where it belongs. It's a nice no problem coin, but I don't see an upgrade in its future.
Perhaps dipped too many times or for too long. The net result is a dull coin with little eye appeal. If it grades, it might get an MS-61, which...
Here is one more litte tidbit, less convining that the previous "star" example, but put out there nonetheless. Some people think that Reich signed...
So, we now say that we have no idea who designed the new coins, cira 1807-8? I am not buying that. Someone started marking an arm on the 13 star...
I am surprised that this coin held its value as well as it has. I once had little Capital Plastic holder that had spaces for the 1955, 1972 and...
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