Could be a vise job. Paddy would know. If not it's a big score.
Let it sit in acetone to remove any tape residue. Rinse with distilled water, air or lightly pat dry. Don't do business with them anymore.
I don't see how to get youngsters interested in it. When I was a kid, you could buy a Hershey's bar or a pack of baseball cards for a nickel. Kids...
As soon as you got that you should have immed hit it again for all the 20s you could in case there were others in the same line. Although that one...
I am not saying anything positive or negative. [ATTACH]
Looks like the real deal. The reverse is good and when the obverse is missing the outer clad layer, the core is being struck and the details will...
Agree with VF cleaned. You can see how flat the high points are, and the shine is not from luster, it is from a layer of patina that has been...
The doubling on the 1969-S DD (the rare, valuable one) is quite dramatic and easily seen with the naked eye.
Wow that is a huge low serial. VN.
Short hunt made more than my gas. I didn't realize till I got home that I bagged a silver dime. Melt value $5. As Lefty said in Donnie Brasco: A...
I've got nothing going on so I photographed my rings. I will try to describe most of them. The 1st photo are some really nice homemade...
The prob is that copper reacts and when it is in the ground a long time it is always going to have ED. The top coin while a great find has ED and...
Yes that's true. But it appears to be verdigris and evidence of cleaning none the less.
The orange areas seems to me that it has been cleaned. And there is verdigris. Copper is not orange but it will look like that when it has been...
It is a bookend serial number. A bookend serial number is a "fancy" currency or collectible number where the same digits appear at both the...
If it was determined that the wear was natural it would straight grade a P-01. I don't think the little notch on the reverse right of 9 o'clock...
Nice serial #. I agree it looks better than a 40 grade however, I see that there was a crease down the center through the portrait. That prob took...
Going back to the bank vault toning. It would depend on the "canisters" or other methods of containing coins, which are usually burlap bags, and...
Even sitting in a bank vault for many decades would cause a darker toning than blast white. The dipping strips off this outer layer. It's not natural.
Something about the blast white coins (especially Morgans) makes me think they are dipped. Since coins were not put in slabs 100 years ago, (or...
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