Honestly, many coins with gold toning look rather sickly to me. For example, many of the coins in this thread have acquired their "golden" hue...
I have never felt the need to buy something just because a lot of other people have one. I think the whole idea of that is silly. I buy things...
Both of them look just fine to me. The toning is attractive, but its not anything spectacular. If they are relatively low grade, then there won't...
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Well that's interesting.
Can you show some examples of genuine clips without the blakesley effect? I've never heard of this. The only pictures shown in your link still...
I like it at 50 or 53. I also would like it better in the old fatty slab. Why the crackout, and why the crossover?
Almost every single clip will show the effect. The only ones which won't are very, very minor clips (the tiniest clips will show as a disturbance...
Somebody got a drill bit set for Christmas, and wanted to try it out.
Great guesses! Yep, it is a Moroccan 2 Falus. Any time you see the Seal of Solomon on a coin, you should automatically think either Israel or...
So, a simple Guess the Grade is boring. Here, I'm going to let you guess the Coin. Identify the Country and Denomination of my recent FUN show...
AU-58 AU-58 AU-55 The discoloration on the high points looks like rub to me. Now, the TPGs and I disagree on this point - so I wouldn't be...
The NGC census shows no PL or DMPL Double Eagles graded for 1850. PCGS does not designate PL or DMPL on anything except the Morgan (with a few...
Try using some light. If you have one light, use 2 or three.
The obverse is 55. In the future, you really need to post both sides of the coin for us to guess the grade.
Absolutely impossible to grade from those photographs. Congrats on buying a coin, but that's all I can tell you.
That's as fake as fake can get. Its not even a good fake.
The reverse is CAM. Its a pity the obverse doesn't follow through.
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