Randy, A recent post has a video, a short one, illustrating the basic hammering process for coins. I thought it was very interesting. “Medieval...
@lordmarcovan @tibor …Thanks again to both of you fine gentlemen for a great contest. Your generosity knows no bounds!…Spark
Too bad there’s no button to make fleaBay disappear…
Great suggestions so far. Another moderately priced gift would be a Mint or Proof Set of her birth year. And you could send her a roll of JFK...
Post some pics of it for us. 1/2 oz would be approx 25 dollars now, with silvers’ new high values. What ballpark amount did you pay? (if you...
If you discount the area on the obverse at 4k, where the dentils are blending with the rim, it does have stronger dentils everywhere else, so I...
VG8-10
…keep in mind that if a counterfeit item gets involved with legal actions the item must be kept as evidence until the evidential value expires....
Quick check at PCGS Photograde it’s F12-F15. edit to add: NumisMedia FMV lists this date/F12 at $1,380.00.
…and it makes one mellow… In 1909 gold was $20.67 per troy oz., making the 1 dwt cost $1.03 USD back then. Today, at (currently) $4,011.30 per...
Nice video report, it looks like you had a ton of fun on your experiment. I especially liked you sticking to your own rules and not cashing out...
Yeah, I wasn’t being critical of you since many turn of the 19th century coins manifest like this.
Looks XF40 or so to me. Mottled toning but no blatant damage, does look cleaned.
Navigate to this post on Coin Talk (by @Lehigh96 on March 19, 2009): The FS (Full Step) Designation for Jefferson Nickels Defined...
They’re verifying your application. As part of that process an action called “server-side validation” occurs. During this process, all of the...
I took a real good, slow look at it and before I saw your guess/assessment I came up with the same grade…AU50. I almost said AU53, but the...
I agree the TPGs need to be a better partner in culling counterfeits, but authentication is already an element of their business models. Their...
It looks very much like a “strike through”. A piece of wire or similar got caught between the coin and the die during strike. If authentic it is...
As part of a 5-coin submission to ANACS in 2015, I had a 1934 Washington quarter with an odd large lump next to IGWT that I thought was an error....
I have personally seen this smushed, melty look produced by heat, and personally own the dime where both clad layers were dissolved by acid...
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