Can't really grade them from those pictures. No read on luster or surfaces. Generally not something I would have sent in. Good luck, and let us...
1875-S 20c piece.
I'm liking this answer. The coin was scratched by an implement or the mount when affixing or removing the mount.
Only small CC was used in 1878. Not an alteration, just a fake.
Crap. Right. Now I'm going to have to sit in the corner at the next TPG luncheon without any dessert, if I even get to go at all.
Yuck. Environmental damage in my book. Hard pass.
Fake with wrong reverse. It is worth nothing.
Grading is a continuum only in 4 dimensions -- strike, luster, surface preservation, and eye appeal. Surface preservation is additionally...
You have to take my Morgan Dollar class at the ANA Summer Seminar to learn it. :D
Nice coin! It looks AU58 to me. Do my white paper reflection test. Stand the coin (slab) on its edge on a while piece of paper, then look down...
AU55
Just got this one for my World Coins in Early America set. [IMG]
I bought some coins recently from Dirk Loebbers in Germany after seeing one I wanted on MA Shops. Shipping didn't take too long. I got one...
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The wing detail away from the scarcely struck center of the coin is AU-something, so I put 53, not knowing what the rest of the coin looks like.
The thousands of die marriages with shattered dies would indicate otherwise.
I've tried to break that habit and just use the term "machine doubling" to avoid equating it with a coin that is double struck, which is totally...
It has a polished look to it. APMEX wouldn't let a raw Cincinnati that might grade PL go cheap. I'd return it.
Sadly, I think your first impression was correct.
Along with my gold Jefferson nickel (see other thread), I picked up two other pieces that Ron had made back in the Gallery Mint days. One is one...
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