This is getting ridiculous.... First there was the "lowball" sets.... weird, strange, backwards, and who would pay a premium for a worse coin?...
Yeah, just polished. You can do this with baking soda and a toothbrush.
There is a subforum here for ancient coins. The members there are extremely knowledgeable, and can probably tell you what you have, even in these...
While these guidelines are often really, *really* hard to follow, they are good guidelines. In terms of importance, I'd like to highlight a...
The 1914D appears original-ish, and may be worth grading. The grade on that one is limited to F, however - the lines on the wheat ears need to be...
Thanks for the comments, y'all! I was very pleased to get this one recently on Heritage, especially at the steal of a price that I did!
Very attractive toning, but I don't see any reflectivity. You have to have mirrored surfaces to get a PL - and there don't appear to be mirrors on...
I figured it was Germanic of some sort, based on the style and script. Found a Wikipedia page about the Duchy:...
Anyone else having trouble pulling up the NGC chat boards? Are they down for maintenance? Are they down for good? Honestly, they've been a whole...
The politically correct term for that these days is AU-58+
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