Beautiful, original half dollar. I know you'll treasure it for a long time to come.
The forgers spent a lot less effort on the rev. which is pretty crude. Thanks for posting this as it is a fairly dangerous fake that would fool a...
Beautiful, crusty CC half, okbustchaser!
I'm a little embarrassed to post this one. As you can see someone tried to scratch off some gunk at the lower right leading to details grade (...
Sheesh. That could make a Morgan Collector out of me.
Looks pretty close to perfect. I'm sort of lost when the grade gets past MS 65 on these little coins
I agree. Also the bale has been re engraved. Someone really wanted to "pretty up " the obverse. Otherwise not a bad looking example of a coin...
This 76-cc DDR had an old cleaning but retoned. [IMG] [IMG]
Bill, your 73 and 74 cc Trade Dollars are superb. By that I mean perfect.
Good to see some ideas being tossed around. Look forward to 2015!
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Yeah, the information about the silver source came from someone whose ancestor was a close friend of the CC mint superintendent. He still has one...
unfortunately had a bath at some point.. [IMG] [IMG] The first year of Carson City Silver dollars. The silver did not come from the Comstock...
I'm thinking tooled/altered surfaces as the fields look strange; might just be an aggressive cleaning. Still a scarce P mint doubledime
Usually when they "detail" a coin they will (but not always) list one problem. They could have just as easily listed "cleaned" on this one.
The "silent auction" idea is interesting.
36- vf, dipped and/or cleaned; 44- au 55-58
Chief, we know there are some real goodies in that little box!! Unfortunately I think my bank would take a dim view of my laying out all the...
The problem as I see it is unjust criticism, baiting, inaccurate statements, and just plain meanness that would inevitably occur if commentary on...
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