No, not like that at all. I was hoping you see the difference if you looked at the two types. In your picture, yes, the red area is the wire rim....
What coin or coins in particular ?
It's not so much that what you were doing was wrong - you just weren't using all of the information. The pics in the grading books are the pitts -...
Guilty :kewl: But I think YOU'VE graduated beyond the monster category :D
Howdy Lauren - Welcome to the Forum !! Like the the others have said, if it were me I would probably keep the coins. I would definitely get...
tcore - Read the text and look closely at the pics - hopefully that will explain it. CLICK HERE
I may have created a monster :kewl: Another nice addition Rickie ;)
First of all it's not a colonial, it's a French coin. It was issued by Louis XIIII of France and struck at the Lyon mint. It had a mintage of...
Easy answer, if you had a newer edition of the ANA Guide. In 1986 the ANA announced that the standards it was using were too lenient and that...
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If Clark says it's genuine - that would be good enough for me. The reason the metal composition is different than that listed in Krause is because...
I'd say ya got a nice b-day present there :thumb:
I gotta go with F 15 too. The reverse might make VF, but I don't think the obverse does. To make Vf half the details in the leaves need to be...
You could go to the drugstore and buy a magnifying glass with a 4" lense - they make 'em up to about 4 power.
The very dark or black spots on gold coins are typically there from the time the coin is struck and they have nothing to do with toning. For the...
Based on the pics I'd say they're worth about $25 - $30 each.
It appears that at some time in the past someone has removed a great deal of the black already. But to answer your question, yes you could get it...
The standard coins in the Prestige sets were clad. Only the commem included in each set was silver.
Yeah, it could. And it has happened. But generally when it does happen it's because the coin was improperly dipped right before it was slabbed....
I posted pics of the 2 D mint Ikes for one reason mainly - to show the level of consistency that PCGS has. But they were clad and I needed some...
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