I would have to spend some time looking at it to be suspicious. Some of the lettering on the reverse is flawed, most notably the second "A" in...
Similar coins on eBay go for around $300. Of course the fees would be about $40 + shipping (at the very least $6). So personally if I was buying...
Oh great, what did I get myself into? I already spent like an half an hour researching these. I found silver medals for R.M. Clark, Clarence...
That was unexpectedly easy... George Everett Herndon (1918-1972). His brother Charles also worked for the Champion Paper and Fibre Co. Here's...
Hey I was browsing eBay and I found another one in silver. When I saw it I thought, "I think I've seen this somewhere" but it took me a minute to...
Low MS or High AU. I suspect it's been cleaned. There's a good amount of original luster, but I don't like the lines in the field in front of her...
That's from a weak strike along with the branch, III, left corner of the shield and the north tip of the star.
Weird. The hair is AU, the cheek is 66 or better and the fields are MS-62 to AU-58. And it has a shield mintmark.
AU-55
The luster is good, but definitely not enough to be anything above a 66. I think it has just a few too many contact marks for a 66, but just...
It's not the most realistic picture, but I like that perspective drawing look and the open fields.
That's a really nice piece. The strike is a bit weak and the luster is somewhat subdued. I'm going MS-62
Looks MS-64 FB to me.
The lettering is incuse, so these are contact marks on the field above the lettering.
Is that a counterfeit?
Looks MS-66 to me, although it is just a picture. I do think it is closer to a 67 than a 65, but not quite.
As I understand it, certain coin counting machines have rubber wheels to move the coins along. If one of those wheels does a "burnout" on the coin...
A wheel mark is a concentrated patch of hairlines.
I've always been a coin guy first. I got started when I found a U.K. Six Pence in my coin bank. A few years ago I discovered exonumia and I don't...
Yes I've heard of them. I should probably get one of them someday. https://numismaticnotebook.com/2023/12/02/dont-take-any-wooden-nickels/
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