There are exceptions Guy, like the coins you speak of. But those exceptions do not mean that what I said is not true. It merely means they are...
Pretty sure it's from Denmark, but I can't identify the denomination. Date looks to be 1651, maybe 1657.
You win the kewpie doll :D Because people want to be the one who started the thread. They want to be the one who posted the news - first. And...
Because they didn't save all of them, so many of them got put into circulation. But there were a lot that were saved, and that's why there are so...
I don't think anybody is defending him, least of all me. What I and the others are trying to say is this. The coin was doctored in such a way that...
This thread will help some, but it's basically saying what you have already been told - http://www.cointalk.com/t193751/
And if buy these already slabbed, NGC & PCGS, you need to know that when it comes ot grading the TPGs are all over the map with grading. There is...
I agree, it's a cast fake. Made of base metal with a silver wash. The silver wash is what is coming off.
Now here are pics of a couple of different 1765 M 8 reales. You can plainly see portions of the legends that intrude into the denticles, as well...
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Actually, they aren't. The edge design was always added after the coin was struck. Yes and no. Because the edge design was added post strike it...
All quite true. That said, I would trust the realized prices on Heritage way, way, before I would ever trust the realized prices on ebay ! Why ?...
The underlined and bold sentence in your comments are where we disagree. It simply isn't true. In the first place, just because there is one...
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I have all sorts of doubts about you. And I suspect I am not alone in that ;)
Can't. There won't be any that meet my standards :D
Ehhhh - I'd buy it but I wouldn't be happy unless I could have two of 'em ;)
There is no answer, but there's a lot of guesses. Some of those guesses are even educated. And some are not. The US Mint tried to claim that...
I'm amazed anybody remembers him !
Actually it has been done before. Which is why I mentioned the Millennium sets. Only then it was an ASE struck at West Point, but without a W mint...
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