One word - popularity.
Well that makes 3 of us that agree. But it is a chocolate and vanilla issue, for whatever that's worth.
You might want to leave Conder out of that group Chris. His very name comes from his passion for non US coins.
Excellent, just excellent !!
It's a lot more complicated than that. The maximum and minimum permissible weights for any of the coinage of the Spanish colonial mints was always...
Small correction Mike, I am not, nor have I ever been, a coin dealer. But I do understand your point.
It's a very complicated issue with many changes that occurred over many years. NGC and PCGS make a point of there being differences in their...
Geoff I don't know what to tell ya. I've written out the exact same info about other coins probably a hundred times. That info will always prove...
Well, you know what they say about blind squirrels ;)
I'd have to say no, I think the marks on the cheek are going to hold it back.
And alcohol is what I always used on my own because I always had that around the house. Acetone however, not something I would normally keep...
Hmmm, OK, you made me think. Happy ? :) As usual when I look at a coin I grade it myself instead of trying to figure out what a TPG might say....
Well, for whatever it's worth it was live auction with prior internet bidding. And an internet bidder won it. Rather obviously nobody that looked...
Like I said, I don't know what else to call it. But when raised metal cuts into the fields and cuts of the top of the letters, and it obviously...
coin dexter posted a thread about one of his coins, a 1913-D type 1 Buff in MS66, and that got me to looking. Not wanting to sidetrack his thread...
Well I'm not an error guy, but I wouldn't know what else to call it. It's starts from just below the chin and runs to about the B in LIBERTY....
Not that it means anything but just as an observation, back when Paul first posted this thread the seller he bought the coin from had 3 other AT...
Good point on the acetone, was a mistake for me to suggest it. Brain cramp I guess :oops:
Pretty coin Dex, I love the color ! But I find the obv cud somewhat distracting.
You have no idea how much there is to know, but then few do. Everything that has been touched upon in this thread is but the tip of the iceberg....
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