If NCS removes haze or ugly toning which reveals damage or corrosion on a coin then NCS didn't damage/destroy the coin. They merely uncovered...
Yes, but it didn't require a denomination, either. None of these mint-made bullion rounds--from ASEs to this latest boonswaggle do.
On the contrary, if it takes an MS-66 label to bring MS-66 market guide money for what is actually an MS-65 coin CHANGE THE MARKET GUIDES NOT THE...
No, we simply feel that an EF coin should be an EF coin--regardless of what initials are on the label or when that label was printed.
Even more, why bother to put a denomination on it at all? It is NOT a coin; it is a bullion round--nothing more.
Larry's first '31 is V-3 (better known now as LM-7) This is the second use of obverse 3 and the sixth use of reverse M. The obverse has a tiny...
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The small heraldic eagle reverse coins were 18th century--not 19th. The "no-drapery" coins weren't really separate types, IMO, as much as they...
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Speaking of catastrophic die cracks, I've always been partial to this one. The cracks are so advanced that the coin can actually be rocked back...
One dealer I know uses the word (as a hopeful outcome ;)) PROFITABLY 1234567890
Larry, your 1837 is the JR-3, an R-2 die marriage. This was the third (and fairly obviously final) use of this obverse die. A total of two...
I am not a fan of TPGs, but if you are "clueless on fakes and whatnot" buy one already certified as real.
I don't know about a new coin, but this is what an XF quarter looks like after being carried as a pocket piece for 50 years. [IMG] [IMG]
Yeah, I'd would have probably buffed it up shiny before submitting it.:playful:
Airplanenut over on the PCGS boards has (had?) this one... [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
Since 1964 as a junior member....one of these days I'll get around to a Life membership.
Oh, they care. They just realize after several years of dealing with fakes that there truly is very little that they can do to combat it....
The inscription in the upper right field reads "Cadet Robertson 1845. In the left (behind Liberty) Roberston is repeated.A note: As gentlemen...
Might be more interest if they were done in the original silver rather than gold. As such I have no interest in the set whatsoever.
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