OK OK Modern commems generally do. SCREEEEECCCHHH!!! ASE is fine, but the Buffalo Silver Dollar is awful. It's an artistically lobotomized...
In 2006, the mint pinched off the "Old Mint" commemorative dollar with a caricature of the Morgan reverse barely worthy of silver plated "tribute"...
I'll be there Thursday through Saturday, doing photography at table 1711 and giving a talk about the insight one can gain from studying die...
I imagine the weight is close enough that neither grading service was able to conclude it was counterfeit by the weight alone.
I agree with having NCS take a crack at it. The little die markers used to authenticate a 93-S aren't going to show up with the corrosion, but...
Does the order tracking show "In Process", or has it not even gotten that far? If it's "In Process," then it's in the queue to be graded, and...
This. As for the shield being boring, you're comparing it with two stark, very geometric wheat stalks surrounding a bunch of lettering and a...
Harshly polished. It doesn't look whizzed, which refers a specific type of polishing, because there's no "artifical luster" on it, just a sheen....
I actually checked it last night, and didn't see anything other than notched serifs on the first T and the S in TRUST, which seem to be in the...
I had the opportunity to upgrade my proof war nickel from a 65 to a 67. [ATTACH]
For 1916-24, pretty much.
Congratulations!
Good to hear that it was an unintentional lighting side-effect, and that the coin looks better than what you photographed at first.
Weird. Is the bit on the coin some sort of raised gunk or corrosion, or is it discoloring that's smooth and flush with the coin's surface? Your...
One's on my shopping list, but the date, condition, and price have to be right.
VG10. Not sure it would grade due to the mess with the cheek and the bites taken out of the obverse rim at 5-6:00
I don't think it's deliberate etching as much as it is simply incidental environmental damage. Perhaps it's a dug coin, and the soil was...
Poke it with a stick. See if it comes off.
On the other hand, I hear there important London collectors offering big bucks for weight variations like this. ;)
82-S isn't as common in PL or DMPL as 80-S and 81-S, but it's a unique date in that many have very deep fields. The curvature of the fields on...
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