It's a bit hazy but not awful. I don't love it, but I don't hate it, either. In the poll, I went straight-down-the-middle-neutral on this one....
I actually don't recall if there was die polish there, scuffs in the plastic, or both.
Nope. Came from Philly. As to the strike, I'll defer to the opinion of the copper specialists. It might be a litte bit soft, but didn't look...
I actually agree. On both counts. It was indeed a nice piece, but I too was of a F15 opinion (the grade, not the fighter jet. LOL)
PS- @Aethelred still lives in that neck of the woods, and I believe he and his coworkers have had one or two of these walk into their shop, so...
Nice find. I used to live in Western NC near where these were made. As you can imagine, that spiced up my daydreams when I went out detecting....
It initially looked weird to me, too, like a fingerprint, but specialists told me that's a normal characteristic of the variety. I have since...
Admittedly, I'd place it as being 5 points overgraded, myself, but not so much that I'd really disagree with the labeled grade. Regardless, it...
Cleaned that one may be (a tad whizzed, perhaps?) but it's still quite decent looking. In my experience, while Peace dollars do display the...
Blessedly, no. Had my weekly quota of them two nights earlier.
Nice one! Brazil, 1822. [IMG]
The little built-in "spoiler" button feature on the polls here is cool. Had never used it before. I was having a bit of poll fun in the wee...
Ditto.
Brazil or 1814 [IMG]
Without knowing the answer, if this were someone else's coin and poll, I'd have been wavering between 25 and 30 myself. It was a nice...
The antique mall setup (depending hugely on the staff, fee structure, security, and location of the antique mall, of course) can be a great way...
There were two revolving Spin Display cases. With the tray configuration I used, each could hold over 700 coins in 2x2 flips. This is where the...
I do think it was undergraded.
Second "I", I meant.
Yep. Too bad. :(
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