If it hasn't been up for auction in many years.... there really is no way to know! The best you can try to do is maybe look at similar coins...
These are really, really hard to grade because of how softly/crudely they were struck.
Yes, that is definitely fake. I don't understand why anyone would fake a circulated Franklin, though. I'm not convinced its fake... we just...
If anyone has been following my journey with Moroccan coinage, they've seen me post these crudely struck Moroccan gold coins before. I just...
Yes, and that's why I missed it. It is a rough surface, crudely struck. On a nice, quality US gold coin, this would have been much easier to...
If anyone is curious, NGC just called this one XF Details - Removed from Jewelry. Does anyone see what they saw? (I saw it once I looked...
Not to necro-post or anything, but rather than start a new thread, I figured I'd give an update on this coin: I sent it to NGC, and they called...
Seems that's how it goes sometimes. I'll go for a couple of months and not see anything I want, and then Bam, it all comes at once. When you see...
I believe Biga is a fairly trustworthy source. I don't think I'd doubt anything I'd bought from them.
Really cool coin. I love the two animals on either side!
Not really. The plug adjusted the weight to local standards, just like the clipping did. The countermark certified it met those standards. This...
I'd love to see this in concert some day, with a good choir. Our symphony here is really good, but the choir in Charleston that plays with our...
I'm familiar enough with most of those... but that second one with the horse is completely alien to me. Tell me more about that strange thing.
That is a very attractive coin. I'm unfamiliar with "Sword Dollars". Could you tell us a bit more about these coins?
Yes, I expected some luster. Luster is required for an AU grade.
And no rainbow, either ;) Your full slab shot looks better than the originals, but still not great. Definitely not original skin.
You might get lucky and the rainbow is actually there, like this one :) [ATTACH]
I suspect the "rainbow" is an effect of the photo-editing. It looks like they've altered the contrast to make the image look sharper. I've seen it...
So, the grade is pretty much what I said. Now, the real question... did you buy it knowing it was a 65 getting a color bump to 66 value? Or did...
You can see the PCGS clear three-prong holder in the obverse images, at the very least.
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