I'm not a fan of laminations either, with a few exceptions. I like them if they fell off and were struck through the coin somewhere else. Like...
early 1870's indians It's more common than not to find an early 1870's Indian Head Cent with corrosion or environmental damage on it than to find...
What about The Cent Queen? Naw, that doesn't have the ring to it either. I've seen a lot of 1862's, and never seen this one. Very cool by the...
Re: rotated dies Much of this has been said, but here's my synopsis as a collector of rotated dies ... less than 15 degrees is common and within...
Re: Reverse looks like a defective planchet (before coin was struck). Unfortunately, someone cleaned the front of it - that don't look natural.
Here's one of my coins to show (in my experience) the minimum amount a coin can be mis-aligned to get the designation. [ATTACH]
First, these are really good pics. I wish everyone on here could do as well. Second, I think this is struck thru foreign material, although i...
There is a 1907 IHC with die rust in Rick Snow's book and i just checked it out. Unfortunately, this isn't it and is just post mint damage.
Ike MAD I've submitted coins for grading with slightly more of a misaligned die than this one and they don't come back slabbed as an error. So,...
Does that look better than VF-30 to anyone else? Or am I blinded by the immaculate picture.
Beautiful.
Original posting looks like it is listed in The Cud Book as LC-42S-28R Ret. I can match up the other posts if you want.
And to extend on these comments (which are very good by the way) ... NGC and PCGS are good as gold, ANACS and ICG are good, but still require...
It just takes a lot of practice. I'm to the point where 80% of coins I send to TPG'ers come back the grade I think they should. If they don't...
I try not to touch problem coins with a 10 foot poll.
These days, 99.5% of people with a checkbook have a debit card ... I don't anticipate that hangup. I do anticipate a number of homeless people,...
Very nice coin.
Thanks for the input folks. They are currently in safety flips and i'm preparing to move, so I want everything in a folder in 2X2's, for now....
Probably both.
The one cent piece will go the way of the half cent. And two-piece cent. I think this is good a time as any to do it ... we'll always have...
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