@fish4uinmd that is a beauty! Is that a bit of toning on the obverse, or just the photo?
I was at a coin show yesterday, first one in about a year, and looking for something to catch my eye that was 'affordable', higher quality,...
Well, regardless of what people collect, I will likely surprise them with things outside their interests. Because I enjoyed a coin show today and...
Yah. If you find out that they play eeny, meeny, miny, moe for the grading or authenticity then that would not be good...... oops! secret's out!...
Add'l: it may not turn an unc to a circ grade (AU59 and below) outright though....i.e. having a fingerprint on a coin does not automatically kick...
Fingerprints can affect and lower a grade. Uncirculated coins are MS60 - MS70. An uncirculated coin with a fingerprint can get above a MS65, but...
Let's see it head on, not angled, and see if you can also get a good closeup of what you see doubled.
what the others said... very plausible
My best guess is that without pics there will be no best guess.
Here is my take on this, and I welcome any corrections or additional details others more knowledgeable than I can provide. According to the bits...
What a waste of $99 Zimbabwe.
Congrats!
[IMG] not mine ^^ but I do have three I bought. Still dreaming of finding one in the wild, even if substantially lower grade....
Coin roll hunting can be great fun and it forces you to pay attention to the coin, if you are looking to possibly score something cool or...
So am I..... I knew about the condition, but trying to prove what was bad about this one made me delve deeper both online and with the books I...
looks like you have pictured one of each...
And nothing beats knowing when you are seeing something fake but looks real to most people, and the only way you know is because you have handled...
Nice!
OK... couple other things....seems to me the liberty doubling is CW, while the date is CCW. A true one would be a class I CCW with not only the...
A few points. Not all of them that would be what you want to look for to spot a struck counterfeit. 1) It would be extremely unlikely to have a...
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