I have the same question! Is it perhaps dependent on the definition of "darker"?
Update - in hand the 1820 penny in the OP is much darker than any pictures I had of it. It's actually very pleasing. The slight deterioration on...
Hah, hah. I wonder why they didn't re-engrave the reverse while they were at it? (I'm assuming they didn't since very little of the details are...
Thank you, typecoin971973. I super appreciate the information and the examples. Wow. Terrific learning day for me! :) And I love your article...
Crypto79 - how do you define "skin"? I assume Patina is skin - ? But of course not every coin has patina. So is patina one form of skin perhaps?
That, sir (Crypto79) is one heck of a great post! I will study it thoroughly and repeatedly. I love your examples and explanations and - it...
Another example - maybe more appropriate: also w CAC (sent it in myself last month). I suppose it might be silly to assume that CAC folks will...
Given that the "look" is subjective - here's an example of an old silver coin that in this picture I think it looks a little glossy - in others it...
Kind of difficult to compare it to Crypto79's pic, not to say it isn't a good picture, it's kind of dark and for all we know the pic I posted...
Tell me more. How do you know?
Oops - I started to reply to the question "where is the mint-mark". I see others have answered it thoroughly - no mint mark. Valid research has...
Yeah, it's priced way above the standard 1840's - Noho and Philly. But it had a pretty low mintage and PCGS estimates 400 survivors. Pretty low...
NGC calls it (O) medium letters. PCGS calls it (O) reverse of 38. Thanks for posting the description, Insider. I should have done that! As I...
xf40 - pretty hard to find. An Early New Orleans mintage. Weak obverse strike perhaps around Liberty's head. What do you think? Original...
My bad on that one - the 2000 survival rate - turns out that the estimate of surviving small date 1820's. Their estimate for large date survivors...
Wait a minute - I saw a 64 PR67 go for $29 on ebay yesterday? What....... the.......? Oh, but it wasn't a D. Weird coin.
And - a quick check of 1821 pennies - a non-hoard year - shows double the survival rate (even though 1820 was a high mintage year) and almost no...
Interesting point and I'm sure that the majority haven't been slabbed - however, would you deny that certification percentages aren't at a least a...
From what I gather - around here and other places where it's discussed, crackouts seem most common in MS and maybe AU grades. I once cracked an...
Further muddle. Ironically, PCGS estimates 2000 coins surviving and only 50 of those over ms60. Apparently this bears no relationship to the...
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