Same price guide there is for gradable coins - the Heritage archives.
Well, then either PCGS really dropped the ball IMO or you got a fake coin in a fake slab. I suspect the latter. Let's look at a few things on...
No one can tell you with absolute certainty what the cause of milk spots is. But it is generally believed that it is the washing process the mint...
Unless you wish to do so for legal/tax reasons, I see no reason to do so. Of course that's assuming that you followed the law every time you sold...
That's a big "if" at this point. I too am skeptical of the coin.
I mean that the process described in that book and elsewhere on the internet is not the same process I am talking about. Sprue is just a fancy...
I'll check the books, but that isn't even a coin. It's a shooting medal. Far, far different from an ordinary 1873 4 ducat. The 1873 4 ducat has...
I can't offer much based on those pics. Can you post larger pics ?
I guess it's a good thing that you can't believe everything you read in that book.
Well kinda. If you make dies using a genuine coin then yes, the dies will have all the same characteristics that the coin had. Only they will be...
OK, let's clarify some things here. A sprue is the hole left in a casting mold through which the molten metal is poured into the mold. Typically...
It's pretty easy to bury them in the reeding with some tooling. That may be why some have the weak reeding you mentioned.
Yeah, it's possible. But you'd end up having to scroll through forty eleven pages just to find what you wanted. Wouldn't be much different than it...
Say what ?? An 1873 Austrian 4 ducat that is worth $18,000 ? :eek: You sure you're reading that right ?
You're exactly right, it is wear. Now what did you pay for that ?
Yup, it's been dipped to death. Fairly common for this to happen. They keep trying to get the dark out of the recesses and they keep on dipping...
AU55 I'd say. Wear on the left knee, right leg, left hand, minor wear on the rock. On the rev, wear on the eagle's breast, the rays, slight wear...
Very good Bart :thumb: Now I know diddley about ancients. But I can tell you this, disagreements about such things among recognized experts...
No, you're absolutely right. There are plenty of genuine struck coins with pimples and raised areas on them caused by rusty dies. But usually they...
eddie, I hate to tell ya this buddy, but pretty much the entire numismatic world disagrees with ya. In fact they would vehemently disagree with...
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