I'd be tempted to write it off as a gambling loss. That's what it is, gambling. A roulette wheel with a lot more slots for the ball to fall into.
I figured it was an absurdly high grade. NNC is a basement slabber. I wouldn’t even be sure that it’s genuine.
I’m guessing the NNC grade is like MS68 and the real grade is Unc Details Scratched.
The 1899 has the reverse hub type of 1900-1901. It was an “early release” on around 2% of the 1899 Philly coins. Compare the main vein of the...
You might look for something here: The Ultimate Guide to U.S. Three Cent Nickels https://archive.org/details/guideusthreecent2003gifford/mode/2up
I was reading up on why this was such a short-lived issue, and learned something odd (to me at least) - large cents were never legal tender...
According to Wexler https://doubleddie.com/58201.html in the US "With the introduction of the Flying Eagle and Indian Head cents the Mint began...
OP hasn't been here for going on 12 years.
You can see that the metal is rough all the way around and a fin of it folded over. It wouldn't take much depth to raise a thin circle of metal...
I'm guessing someone started drilling a hole and quit. The New Orleans mint didn't exist for another 8 years.
There was a similar thing with the Camp Fire that wiped out Paradise, CA in 2018. The collection was in a safe and NGC did the restoration and...
Not that much different than a bulk submission at the other TPGs except they're not individually slabbed.
It's interesting to look at the distribution versus the mintages and consider where you might be detecting geographically. 1917 and 1924 you have...
The image pasted is not the same quality as on their website here...
Marketing.
I couldn't find any on Heritage or PCGS with that large knob on the tail of the 5 either. The 0 should be thin at the top and the loops of the 8...
The date looks wonky to me.
I think this depends on the coins, the era when they were graded, the grader, the day of the week... I've only submitted Canadian coins to ANACS...
My last purchase (May 2024) went from Irvine to Anaheim to Moreno Valley before heading to Denver. Considering it took 26 hours to scan in at...
Is that from personal experience?
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