It's going to be very difficult to get raw toners into a slab, going forward. The ability to artificially tone a coin in convincing manner is...
What it *will* do is replace Heritage as my cross-reference for what I determine from Overton. My attribution habit for Busties is to utilize...
Mine would. They know I know better, and if I'm gonna do it I'm gonna do it right. :P
I have nothing to post which would not get me a vacation from the Forum.
I don't see anything which scares the hack out of me in these images, and those look like legit chops which tend to point in favor of originality....
5) The US is, in many ways, a rather conservative (phrased politely) country and many of these dealers have been in business for decades. They're...
He's the one who generates their revenue, not the buyers.
BadThad is of the opinion they're permanent. I have had a very little luck with them on a couple of occasions, but they may not have been the...
I knew I was going to love this the moment I saw the thread title. :)
Take it to VAMworld, with your thinking and the caveat that there's not enough evidence to be sure. Maybe a title like, "Is this a 1921-P...
Ain't that the truth?
I did all that before even posting my thought above. That's an uncommon but not solitary location for a 1921 die crack, and I found the evidence...
Ebay holds sellers to promised shipping times these days. No more tit-for-tat.
I try to hew exclusively to spatial relationships and configuration in the attribution process. Things like letter strokes and apparent size are...
This is my source:...
Considering he has all three for significantly less in total than those single-coin auctions, you're making his point for him. :)
A little research indicates that the Type One obverse has the point of the shield to the right of the 1 in the date, while the Type Two has that...
The only detail I found of any relevant interest was in VAM-61, which resembles the obverse break pattern at U-S on yours. Insufficient detail...
PCGS in particular is leery of slabbing laminations which might then peel and disfigure the coin - I sincerely doubt they'd slab this one. Those...
They were faithful to the prominence of Lincoln's jaw, I'll say that. :)
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