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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...
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I'll probably buy one to flip now, and if I feel like it, one to keep once the initial flip premium is gone.
I think in general, people don't want to be seen as overgrading stuff, so they will tend to err on the side of caution when grading "in public."...
When I saw this one, my first thought was, "OK, now there's the luster on a brown large cent we were discussion that was absent on the previous...
Flattered by those who value my opinion. As for whose grading opinions I value, it tends to be those who are not only consistently good at...
64BN. Has luster, good surfaces, especially on reverse, with only minor ticks, eye appeal could be better. The dark spots max it out at 64 for...
It's a very weak strike, which happens for 23-S. I looked at pictures of a 23-S in VF30 and XF45 on CoinFacts to see where the difference was....
64BN. No wear, great surfaces, but not perfect. Luster is good, but not great. A few hits here and there, but none heavy where it counts most....
I would think that some sort of mineral analysis could at least confirm whether or not it was quarried in the right place. Not sure who would do...
I see nothing that would make me say it is a doubled die.
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Ungraded proof sets should only be bought when you can inspect the coins in person. It's very hard to grade proofs from photos, and it's easy to...
I can't tell why the half was called cleaned from here, but there's probably some parts of the surface that are too glossy or that show a patch of...
Yuck. In no universe should anyone pay more than melt for that. Also, cleaned (or in this case, highly polished) and AT are not mutually...
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