Looks better on the OP coin. Love that "old silver gray", especially on old silver.
Different trace elements in the gold that come from the source of the gold can cause slightly different tinting to the gold. Serious specialists...
There are no import duties on coins coming into the US and there are no US coins illegal to import (except the 1933 double eagle or a 1794...
Like some of the others, my collection has reached the point for US that $500 won't go far. I might be able to buy one of the more common 1794...
Doesn't hurt the value at all, in fact it it nails down the variety. Massive cracks, should by all rights have a massive cud. Interestingly the...
They do now, and they are usually better than a cheap Iphone picture. But they aren't good enough to make a lot of problems go away. Some sure,...
Yep,until 1971 one two hundred fortieth of a pound. Or in the US originally one nintieth of a New York dollar, and after 1792 two US cents. I...
Only for coins slabbed within the last five years at NGC and the last three at PCGS. Maybe five to seven million of the sixty million coins they...
Sounds like he has found a nice friendly forum where people don't know what they are talking about and freely give confusing and possible...
The "planchet flaw" on the obverse is a die crack that is trying to develop into a retained cud. (there are actually two cracks there, one running...
Until the counterfeiters start attending auctions with a reader equipped to read and record the signals from the RFID chips. Go through lot...
The child walking away from the wheelchair is good, but it feels more like a reverse to me than an obv.
I don't know what the date is but I can say it is definitely NOT 1873, or 4. All of the 1871, 2, 3, and 4 coins from CC were struck using the...
Interesting, I had never heard of the reconsideration service level.
Well them Mint is part of the Treasury Dept and the Treasury isn't Legislative or Judicial so I think it IS controlled by the Executive Branch.
Thanks, I hadn't heard of the SS doing it earlier.
Maybe, maybe not. They can do incredibly thin flash platings with thicknesses down to a few millionths of an inch.
I've looked at several others online and with the exception of one piece on the Coinfacts page none of them had finning. The Coinfacts did, but...
To get the attribution on the label. It's probably a variety that PCGS didn't recognize. And yes I can believe the story. As to which TPG was...
I saw the title and thought you were going to post a tough one, something real low grade. S-9 The stem of the leaves below the bust pointing...
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