Those coins are incredible! You must have had a good job out of college to have bought that dime as your first purchase! I recently acquired the...
Actually I see what you are referring to, the nick on Liberty’s neck above the curl and below the ear. I was asking about the larger spot next to...
I’ve looked closely under a loupe and it is not a nick, it appears to be a black spot on the surface.
Here is one of my more recent acquisitions that I bought in its PCGS AU53 holder. Note the black spot next to the lower right portion of the...
I would be happy to own that coin regardless of the number on the holder. You can’t go wrong with eye appeal.
Maybe it’s just a really good strike with a toning pattern I’m not used to seeing.
Is the coin genuine? Something about the “Five Cents” on the reverse is setting off alarm bells.
Regarding the later slabs, was it just an issue with over grading or inconsistent grading, or were they also slabbing coins of questionable...
Looks like PCI. They are legit but not top tier. I would trust them for authentication of a details coin like this one.
In an instance like this where there is a huge price jump between AU and MS, does an MS60 typically sell for MS money? It’s such an uncommon...
Yes, the luster, or lack thereof, is what immediately caught my eye. Perhaps dipped one too many times.
3 points does seem like a very large discrepancy, at least in the coin collecting realm. I would think a jump from 58 to a gem grade would be...
At least they were under graded and not over graded.
This thread piqued my curiosity and inspired me to browse through the high end EBay listings of Bust Dollars. Let’s start with the NGC cert photo...
That was my thought process behind the comment I made earlier. Ugly and natural is one thing, but this appears unnatural. Do we even know that...
Not sure if this has specifically been covered in another thread but wanted to ask the question. It’s my understanding that old PCGS graded notes...
If I had $20K to spend on a coin (which I certainly don’t), I would pass on the OP coin and find a nice XF-AU example, and spend the remainder on...
I just won this in an eBay auction and am expecting it in the mail tomorrow. An Austrian coin minted in present day Alsace-Lorraine. I didn’t...
The 18th century silver coins in my collection have what you are describing.
That’s my kind of coin! I’d take that over a gem Morgan any day!
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