That is one of my dream coins..... I think I would rather have a re-engraved coin than a cleaned, polished, damaged, or otherwise mutilated...
Ethiopian coins from the early 1900's are affordable and have a sweet lion on them. Cameroon has a fierce looking rooster. Many coins of the...
I'm 29 and have been collecting for 28 years.
I can tell that it is somewhere above EF-40. Unfortunately, those pictures don't allow me to grade it with any more precision than that.
Unfortunately, its a counterfeit and is worth about 25 cents.
You forgot the option in your poll "There is no possible way to grade the coin from those pictures"
Those are beautiful. Some of those, however, reinforce the idea that the Star is not reliable, and is sometimes applied to coins that may or may...
I don't see it...
So, that crappy article was all about bashing Watson, and not about the medal at all.
Doug, that is a very long post, and some of it is true, and some of it is very much not. I don't have the time to pick it apart right now, but I...
Many of you who have been around for a while have seen my series of What You Need To Know posts about grading. I walked through each component of...
Mainebill - either those pictures are inaccurate, or that 1806 DBH does not have original surfaces (especially the obverse). It is far too light...
I have started a 2 part series which will discuss original and problem surfaces. You can find the first part here:...
I believe a discussion of surfaces is required for a thorough understanding of grading. I've begun a discussion here (I would have updated the OP...
A Discussion About Surfaces Jason Poe This will be the first part of a 2 part discussion on surfaces. This week, we will talk about original...
How about we just get rid of the cent altogether, and then we won't have to argue about which dead guy is on it.
Wow. That coin is fugly. If I had a million bucks to spend on a coin, I can think of at least a hundred other things that I would rather have....
Jeff - that study was described in the 1904 Mint's Annual Report.
I'm glad to see this idea has spilled over to Cointalk as well. I started the NGC one six years ago (geez, I'm getting old....)
I disagree. Strongly. The best way to learn how to tell cleaned coins from original coins is to study ORIGINAL coins that have been graded by...
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