This. In this and #21 (the seated half), I was feeling a lower grade until I looked at the slab shot. This is a 66. Strike is above average for...
64. Booming luster, great strike, very attractive. The reverse is a 66, but the obverse has some light scuffs in the fields and behind the eye...
Solid 65. Great strike, luster, surfaces. A few ticks in the reverse field, but only some tiny, non-distracting marks in the main focal areas.
Picked up an 1823 O-101 Broken 3. I remember seeing this pictured among all the other date varieties in the first Red Book I got when I was 8 or 9...
A nice Fugio cent.
Nice coin, despite what the holder says. Every US collection should have a Fugio in it for reasons you state. It's on my list of 5 "required"...
Probably a stipulation of GC's insurance policy. My insurance requires packages over a certain value be sent either express or registered. Their...
I'm hoping we haven't seen the last of the artist that gave us Provident's cooler rounds.
Yup. PCGS uses the name of one of the people in the shipping department on their label in the return address. I'd imagine their boxes are easily...
In a system where the current subjectivity is learned and made repeatable, you would still have to deal with two things that would perpetuate the...
One of the reasons to use a computer is to eliminate subjectivity from the process, or at least make it predictable. Why would you want to...
If I were doing this, I would consider the experiment a success if I could use only circulated coins, same number for each grade I wanted to...
Shifting grading practices over time may be a reality, and being aware of it is necessary when buying coins, but it's a non-issue when it comes to...
I added a few to my collection recently: 1908/7-B. Very clear overdate. [IMG] 1900/000-B [IMG] 1900-C. Calcutta mint mark is incuse, next to...
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