It's all in what you're acclimated to. My sister and BIL visit from Michigan in January and when all us natives are bundled up in sweaters,...
I just spent the last three days (T, F & S) at FUN in Orlando. Among shopping, rubber-necking, and chatting, I also manned our local club table...
I could see this getting an "Improperly Cleaned" grade. Also, I am not at all certain that is a chop mark. It looks more to me like someone...
The first problem you have is that you don't have a known calibration weight to use with your current scale. Acquiring a known calibration weight...
You need a different scale, one more appropriately sized for coins. For example, the US $20 gold coin is roughly 33 grams. Most scales for...
Oh, absolutely. But I just didn't want to get into the whole accuracy vs. precision discussion. You know, my calculator will give me six digits...
Does your scale have a grains setting? Use that and then just convert to grams. You'll get a more precise reading than a grams setting which...
Since I got it wrong in the beginning, I'll go for the possibility of 0 for 2: 1) There are no other indications of planchet problems elsewhere...
Here's mine, all from the Type Set. Only the Flowing Hair dollar and, in theory, the Gobrecht Dollar to go. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Happy to help and glad it did. Now that you're confident it's genuine, are you going to submit to TPG?
A delamination that happened after striking. I say after striking since it appears that the S struck up and then the piece of the planchet fell...
Greysheet without doubt lists prices for Brown, RB, and Red IHCs. Look closer.
Whoops, forgot to include photo of my coin.
I don't see anything that screams "fake". But I'm not an expert on this issue. Here's mine for comparison. It's the die variety 1-B, the most...
On the other side of the coin, I have never received a coin package via USPS that was anything other than perfect. My mail delivery folks are...
This is not a noteworthy coin although it does have some of that "circ-cam" look to it. No, it's notable because it's an R-6 (13-30 known) die...
It depends, usually on the value of the individual coin, not the set. For example, I think (someone correct me if I have this wrong), Great...
Before I sent them off to auction, I would get a purchase offer from the specialist dealers in IHCs like Charmy Harker (The Penny Lady) and Rick...
I think it's a fake because: - It doesn't look right, and; - The slab is missing the molded-in PCGS letters at the lower right obverse. As to...
A scuff is what your car left on the other person's car. A scape is what their car left on yours. An imperfect analogy to shoes (the...
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