Half right. IF they notice debris they will reholder it. But it's often missed. Grading happens BEFORE encapsulation. Not even a mind-bender - if...
I'm with @C-B-D - I think it's solid upper G and in today's world that's a TPG VG especially on these.
@Numismat What you're missing is the total move away from technical grading towards market and appearance grading given by what people want to...
Why bother? The added MS grades mostly consist of trivially different and unrepeatable differentiation. AU58 suffices for "mid to high MS with a...
There is a small difference as the 2018 book has the 2017 coins. The prices are out of date before the book is published and are full retail...
Torn between a lamination and struck through...
The interesting thing about the earlier Numex is that they do something similar to NCI and include the owner in the cert. IEX is probable I...
Slightly later version of the Numex slab - note the cert#s are in the 10K range... [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Don't forget the odd-balls VSS - Variety Slabbing Service - which does both a sticker on other TPG coins and/or slabs themselves in coin-world...
Definitely want to encase it in SOMETHING that will protect it from moisture. There's enough zinc exposed where the copper plating stretched and...
Need in focus, well lit photos to be able to even guess...
Any of the TPGs will grade it "Details / Graffiti". You can search for coins using that to get some idea...
Actually, I thought I had read that proofs were manufactured on the medal press, which was a slower, higher force press.
Unless you call it out, most people just skim past, vs. zooming in on photos to look for something odd ball.
In order to leave a mark, there HAS to be something behind the coin for the chop to push against. Some of the force is dissipated on the other...
Cool piece. Enjoy! Thanks for sharing.
Nice... very, very nice... But not a candidate for the under $50.00 thread which is more my speed...
Also IIRC #1 is actually #2, the first strike was damaged during minting and discarded.
Also happens in arcades and casinos - any place the coin gets used a lot of times and rolls or drops on it's edge.
Calibrate the scale and/or check several other copper cents.
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