If the rims/edges count, it's no 70...or they missed it and/or let it slide...or it's on the holder. A 69 to me based on that...by the Y in LIBERTY.
So where are the 55 & 56 flat-packs...the best/better ones...? ;)
If the packing was so lax that you're sure of what happened...I/we can't tell just from photos and didn't see it when box was opened...I'd likely...
I have a proof and an MS version of this coin, comprised of .833 silver at .7517 Toz...total wt 28g. Also have some detailed info (somewhere) on...
...or something... :woot:
Agree and Amen...and my two "sense" is more than "sometimes"...like most of the time...certainly with any coin with any value much beyond...
I was more playfully just trying to get a comment back from Sensible Sal who indicated that you "got lucky"...I really couldn't see them clearly...
Nice coin for sure. The photos are not clear enough to/for me to be definitive enough about how lucky you may have been with the FBL...
Piggybacking on these original questions to ask/learn the same for NGC conservation since it was asked about ANACS...the how/when in the process,...
Is there no end...? Appreciate your enthusiasm, but maybe take a break, get caught up...and allow folks to catch up...limit and prioritize your...
Could have fooled me...looks to be on the coin...the splatters all appear to end at the rim and don't go onto the slab. Odd, but whatever...very...
Nice FH for sure...will go 64 from photos from which seem to show/convey a somewhat flat or lack-less luster plus some weak skirt lines.
I'm no longtime expert nor always right-on...if usually in the ballpark...and while not to toot my own horn, I was indeed was right-on with this...
I have several AU and MS Balboas of 1904 and 1905...right about when the Panama Canal resumed construction under American leadership...wish I...
61...no higher than 62...my opinion.
It's not the Royal Mint that's the fool, it's the buyer(s). As the saying goes, it doesn't hurt to ask/offer. It's only crazy to pay those...
Based solely on the average/limited pics, I'd say 63...maybe on the up-side toward a 64 and maybe PL in either case. Everyone has coins they feel...
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