I dunno Larry, the hair on the forehead looks pretty weak to me. I'd be afraid that if the toning were stripped it might show something you'd...
And by the way Mike, you found this link and posted about it. So you should go and add it to the others I showed you the other day in the...
The same way that this grades MS63 - http://mikebyers.com/10679064.html And that this grades PF65 - http://mikebyers.com/21486908.html Or that...
Speaking in general terms and of the world coin market as a whole, values have been going up for about 12-14 years now. That is unprecedented....
The picture was taken through a microscope, there's not much you can do to cure blurry with those. That said, I saw what was going on when I...
Uhhhhh - "dirt" is not considered environmental contamination. You'll find plenty of slabbed coins that have verdigris on them too, that's not...
Then I think you have your answer ;)
Given what I can see, and what you report, I'd have to go with both. But to firm that opinion up, let me ask you - on the coins that have the weak...
If you look you can see that same black color in various places all over the coin, both obv and rev. This tells me that coin was toned black at...
Clashed dies couldn't do that. It is after all the very tops of the shield lines that are being flattened. And on a die the tops of the shield...
Now Douglas <----- :stop: You told yourself you weren't gonna do it :muted:
Could they have an effect ? Yes. Could they have THAT effect ? No.
I think he is missing the extraordinarily large and pink elephant that is standing right in front of him in the room. :rolleyes: I'm done here.
Just because one does not understand how such wear could occur, does not mean that such wear does indeed occur. You apparently don't realize it...
And that's supposed to mean what exactly ? Hopefully you are not trying to tell us that coins only achieve those colors when they are subjected to...
Well that's because people rarely "want" to hear my opinion on the grade of coins. AU58. 'Course if I saw it in hand I might have to go a touch...
Here's the thing. Prior to 2000 when the mint announced that the planchet wash solution they were using was possibly, stress possibly, the reason...
See, proves my point ;)
I think a lot of folks have hit all around the answer that he wants, but nobody's hit it dead center yet. The part that everybody is leaving out -...
The only thing I noticed is that you said something about it having something to do with the cleaning solution used on the planchets for the these...
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