OK, now if you'll look at the areas I have circled in the 2nd pic you'll see what looks like little pimples all over the place. Those are from the...
But that is typically exactly where countermarks were placed. No idea where this one could have come from, but all of the Scottish thistle...
Not where I have books to look it up but the one on the right looks to be from the Netherlands. The other looks to be of middle eastern origins...
Now compare the way the coin you posted looks to problem free XF examples. Then me what YOU think.
OK - let me reword it then. If damaged, it will not be placed in a problem free slab. That is a problem coin slab. PCGS Genuine slabs are problem...
But coins with that amount of wear have no luster - it is all long gone. All the cleaning does is make the coins look "clean", and because of that...
But anybody with an experienced eye will recognize it as a coin cleaned with a jeweler's cloth in about 2 seconds - literally 2 seconds. What...
Given that definition there would not be but a handful of coins graded and slabbed. I guess should have mentioned that when a coin is said to...
This subject comes up a lot, just came up again today in that thread about the '32-S Washington. So let's hear your thoughts on it - what...
In another recent thread I made the comment that I didn't think that somebody understood what market grading is, perhaps what it means would be a...
Look up cleaned examples on Heritage - they'll have some. That will give you and idea of the value.
9 out of the 10 are marked scratched. And the 10th should nor even be in that group, but it showed up in the search. Yes, 6 of them are also...
The new ANACS would probably grade it AU :rolleyes: Eduard I would the grade assigned is consistent with how the TPGs grade the coins. Myself...
I agree, and from the looks of things harshly so. With those pics hard to say for sure but that would definitely be my guess.
Really ! A nick, a flesh wound :rolleyes: Apparently neither of you bothered to look at the other coins linked to.
Here is a list of many that have less severe damage and in less of a prime focal area than yours and they were all slabbed as damaged - Click Here
Thought it was obvious, the large scratch right across the cheek and the hair. The coin is damaged.
And they show it. The coins will be worth the gold value but not much more because they were mounted in jewelry.
Uhhhh, no, they didn't. They announced technology that will allow them to detect altered coins but not AT coins. There is a difference.
Yes he does, and my son has that one in his collection.
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