The best way to use the Heritage site is to not use their guide - look for specific coins instead. Click on the Auction Results Archive link. Then...
Yes I know. But I think that is due to the excessive die polishing. Wouldn't be the first time I was wrong though - wait for more opinions.
I have to agree - it looks like an altered date. But not the normally altered date. Take a close look at the second 1 - it is smaller than the...
If you personally know that he was the one who did clean them, OK fine. But it could easily have been anyone who had the coins prior to him.
Based on the pics in that auction there is no way to tell if it is a 1 or a 2. I would take the word of PCGS that it is a type 2. However, if I...
My mental markdown is to not use it all - ever ! If you wish to use something for a price guide, use the realized auction prices on - Heritage
I would say the coin has XF details but it has been over-dipped trying to remove all the black crud.
You need better pics spock - can't really tell much based on those.
It is not silver - copper/nickel.
Sequentially struck coins - not uncommon, but you don't find them every day either.
That one I think you have somebody look at :thumb:
Die polishing marks.
Because it is circled with dirt and grime while on most of the rest of the coin it has been cleaned off.
Excellent point :thumb: But, don't think that just because a professional grader doesn't use high magnification when grading a coin that he...
What I said Bone was this - And this comment of yours - - that commnet, seems at least to me when read in context with the rest of your...
An interesting question, and one that has even more interesting answers. For example, most people believe that the owner of a coin tends to...
Bone for some reason it seems as if you think that I am defending the TPG's in some way. Nothing could be farther from the truth. All I am trying...
There are lots of web sites about counterfeits - you can find several of them - Right Here
Flip a coin - heads it will go up and tails it will go down. Of course you won't know until January.
Typically harsh cleaning would be defined as any time the surface of the coin is touched with anything during the cleaning process. Dipping...
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