Once in a holder, it's impossible to see it the way the picture portrays. This is one reason why TrueView images are not necessarily the ones you...
I've heard stories from TPG graders about these sorts of coins showing up.
The fourth test came out like this: [ATTACH]
Hard not to like an early proof ASE.
MS and uncirculated are two different things. MS is a grade used for coins have no trace of wear, as if uncirculated, but may have actually...
Kind of a low bar you're setting there.
Now taking orders for my 2020 coin calendar. $16 (includes shipping in the US) gets you a wall calendar with a different coin photo that I've...
I should be able to check tonight. Scribbling is only relevant for 1921. The patches of parallel lines you see is die polishing, which is...
63 here. I didn't see any wear on the high spots. Everything else about it just screams "average" to me. Luster is OK. Surfaces have a few...
That's a very common clash from Liberty's neck. On the VAM 19A and 22, a similar clash is possibly what aggravated the die such that the die...
64. Good luster, strike, and eye appeal. Surfaces have only minor field scuffs and ticks on the devices. No heavy hits, but too many for a gem...
AU details, AT, possibly also cleaned.
They should have cross promoted their new US banknote department by having them "slab" (or whatever the term is for currency -- "sleeve?") the COA.
Nice results in the conservation! I'd be more likely to say 66 than 67 now, but will defer to Jefferson specialists. As for whether to keep it...
[IMG]
65, 6FS. A few light ticks on the coat and on Monticello, good luster, but gets dinged for the funky toning in the eye appeal department.
They missed an opportunity for a bimetallic coin with a copper basketball.
Not an easy one to grade. Like @ldhair , I think it's a bit puzzling. I can't put my finger on anything that says it's for sure AU58. It's...
While no longer common in circulation, circulated wheat pennies in the 40s and 50s are numismatically very common. Rolls of circulated mixed...
Have to decorate the thread with a coin. [IMG]
Separate names with a comma.
