[IMG] [IMG] This is about the crustiest coin in my entire collection! I love it! Why it was never ruined in a bowl of EZ-EST is beyond me but...
Yankee42, that is a very attractive 59-O dollar. Bowers writes (I'm extracting and paraphrasing) that many of these were minted for export to...
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here is an 1842, which I bought some years back when I started collecting. While I can't find evidence of cleaning it has definitely been dipped....
The only coin in the group that I would unequivocally put in a genuine holder based on those pictures is the SLQ. The toning just isn't right. As...
Beautiful example, Larry. The absence of rim bumps on a mid grade circulated piece is remarkable. Love the patina!
OK, I'll make an exception for that one as she appears to be perched on hard porcelain.
This 1841 is deeply toned and in fact NGC called it "environmental damage." I think that's debatable, but no one can doubt its originality....
cool error, Vic!
Beautiful O-mint Larry. I bet that has some nice iridescent color when tilted under a light. Time to go shopping, Rusty!:D
Any year, any grade, slabbed or not. Liberty must be seated on a rock. (Trade Dollars have their own thread, and rightfully so). Mine run the...
Those counterstamped Stone Mtn's are a whole collecting discipline unto themselves. Kind of like a surgeon who only operates on the pancreas.
I was thinking 65 at first, but I'll guess 64 mainly due to the carbon spot below the date. Very nice strike, interesting to compare to the '56...
66 RD? That whole era is known for mushy strikes, isn't it?
[IMG] [IMG] [IMG] I used to cherry things like this off Teletrade fairly often. **sigh** the good ol' days**
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