The new ANACS would probably grade it AU :rolleyes: Eduard I would the grade assigned is consistent with how the TPGs grade the coins. Myself...
I agree, and from the looks of things harshly so. With those pics hard to say for sure but that would definitely be my guess.
Really ! A nick, a flesh wound :rolleyes: Apparently neither of you bothered to look at the other coins linked to.
Here is a list of many that have less severe damage and in less of a prime focal area than yours and they were all slabbed as damaged - Click Here
Thought it was obvious, the large scratch right across the cheek and the hair. The coin is damaged.
And they show it. The coins will be worth the gold value but not much more because they were mounted in jewelry.
Uhhhh, no, they didn't. They announced technology that will allow them to detect altered coins but not AT coins. There is a difference.
Yes he does, and my son has that one in his collection.
On your User CP page , very first link on the left.
Genuine holder, and if it isn't it ought to be.
It is a jeton issued during the reign of Charles IX of France. It is not a coin.
Barely, and that is the only reason I am allowing it to stay in this section.
Actually I believe Plato copied it from an Asyrian tablet from 2400 BC.
Let me put things in perspective a bit here, of course I'll probably get flack for it. When I bought this I bought it in a group of 7, all 7...
Triskaidekaphobics - now where in the world did you dig up that 50 cent word ! I pride myself on my vocabulary but I've never run across that one....
Neither one really. People always have this idea that any 2 coins in the same given grade sell for the same amount - they don't. In fact it is...
I'm prety sure those aren't milk spots, never seen milk spots on a coin that old before. I think it much more likely that somebody coughed or...
Generally speaking, PCGS standards are absolutely written in a very vague language. There are only a few instances in them, like the 65 criteria,...
You can get it weighed at a jewelry store. They can probably also tell you that it is not gold just by looking at it.
Yeah - it's got the fingerprint of a very special person on it :secret:
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