Aside from the rim breakage, that's really not too bad looking for an El Cazador piece. The details on the portrait and the darker grey toning...
Wonderful! What a thrill it must be to dig coins and artifacts from that era. In my week as a tourist, detecting in Essex, some folks (including...
Can you return it? If not, then... well... at least it IS a nice coin, even if you did end up overpaying. And we've certainly all done that a...
You're in the majority. I'm part of the minority. Slabbing ancients has both advantages and disadvantages. For my personal style of collecting,...
Very sharp. Looks AU to me all day long.
How many Warnix do you reckon you've found over time?
WTG, Weaselbritches! :) Congrats on your flashy new widget!
Nice. My current type coin (also an 1880-S) is MS66+, but before that, and not so long ago, my highest-graded Morgan was a 65. And I can't...
Wow.
Dude! Where are you getting these rolls from? Some vault that was sealed in 1961? ;)
Finally, after eight months, I got a grade from NGC! And it's about what I expected. Unfortunately they could not put the JQA pedigree on the...
I have waited five months before. Never eight. Apparently their backlog has gotten worse. And to be fair, Ancients do take longer for them to...
Not a bad idea.
So… was it worth the hassle and the considerable expense and the eight month wait, to slab these? Meh. Um… Kind of? I know most anti-slab...
Both coins graded out as I expected them to. The Roman Republican denarius disappointingly did not get its John Quincy Adams collection pedigree...
Hmm… I don’t see any attached photos? o_O
I'll be a contrarian this time and more liberal than everyone else, and say it's an AU coin. AU50 details, or maybe AU53 on a good day. Old...
I actually think your odds of finding a gold coin on the East coast are better than those of finding a 20-cent piece! They just didn't circulate...
Wow! I think I recall you telling that story before. That tops my father's stories of finding Flying Eagle cents and Shield nickels in change in...
Exactly. Yep, it's interesting, and I don't hate the look. But would I buy one? Not in a hundred years.
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