I've been an active participant on numismatic fora for fifteen years, and in my opinion this coin ranks in the 5 most important circulation finds...
If it were dented before the strike, that coat detail wouldn't have been struck at all. No way for the die to have reached it.
Yeah, NCG is among my least-favorite kitchen-table slabbers, because of that similarity. You know they were playing that angle when they came up...
Yes, to an extent. My thinking is, such a softer material wouldn't generate such a sharp delineation at its' edge. It would "feather" more...
This is the 1908 last seen on Page 56 of this thread: [ATTACH] I suppose I could be more tickled that my first published photographic work...
It's also a good example of a counterfeit struck in the original precious metal, which is counterintuitive for some. This could have been...
I will be utterly astonished if there is any hint whatsoever of this feature on the reverse. I'll repeat: that coat line goes away first if...
Not as flawless as Rheingold's coin, but worthy of the same grade (as PCGS gave it): [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Tapatalk is an app which theoretically makes it easier to post at online forums from one's phone. There are those who don't understand the...
A "dent" that hard would wipe out the line of the back of the coat first, before penetrating any deeper. That line is still there.
As a general rule, die cracks rarely add much value to a coin, and even then only to those whose interest goes to such features. Others consider...
I'm inclined to think it a detached lamination. I doubt design elements would show through a strikethrough, but we've all seen delaminations which...
I very much like the look, and if the Mint offered it without a premium as drastic as Merrick's, I might actually buy one. If I didn't get crowded...
Tapatalk strikes again. As a general rule of thumb, I wouldn't expect more than one of one hundred coins in an NCG slab to meet the stated grade....
Wow.
I'm guessing it a reference to what we'd call the "pursuit of happiness," which is a lesser goal in their culture. Life is Serious Business to...
Yeah, one might expect in return for the bulk price they receive, everything below 69 gets tossed aside unslabbed. That way the TPG doesn't have...
With only these images to go on, I'm around a technical EF for it. Nicely struck - not "great" but nice - but what looks like staining on the...
In this EDS example, it looks for all the world like a lamination. :) Some of the more prominent polishing lines are, in fact, visible in your...
One of my favorite ways to evaluate authenticity of a coin is to find the area of weakest detail, and then find known-good examples with similar...
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