I strongly suspect that the indices so often quoted are based primarily on the key and semi-key issues so familiar to those tracking the strength...
This has everything to do with people finally gaining access to better data and realizing that many coins were regarded as scarce or even rare...
I think the softness of detail is far too uniform for the coin to have been struck through grease . . . my vote is a capped die strike as well.
Neat looking coin.
I'm not sure it's worthy of a featured article Alan . . . a candidate for Best Answer perhaps? I'll consider posting again, as suggested PF . . .
"At what price level is a coin worth being graded?" Yours is a very difficult question to answer with universal applicability, but I'll give you...
Agreed PMD . . . unless a finned rim or rim burr at the outer edge of the rim, the sheared edge inbound of the rim of the coin should not be...
There are a number of things you and I agree on Kurt, but I've done very well with the occasional BUY IT NOW, although less so recently than in...
That smearing occurs naturally, as the metal flows unconfined toward the rim, dipping into and out of recesses in the die along the way. You...
I know very little of foreign coins, but the reverse of the coin does not look damaged to me. In fact, it looks much as I would expect for a cud....
I'm with @IBetASilverDollar. You mentioned that $2500 is a lot of money to you. You then go on to state that you cannot afford to lose any...
That's why it's a bad joke.
WOW Justin . . . I think that qualifies as ARTWORK! .
Hannes Tulving . . . . . . okay, bad joke.
Very nice! . . . Don't stop.
Your coin is in rough enough shape that, regardless of which mint it was made in, it is only worth its weight in silver . . . about $1.20.
No question that it's a fake. The coin is not crisp anywhere, lettering is too plump, luster looks all wrong . . .
MS64 BN
?Any one know what it's worth? I think you'll be lucky if someone accepts it as twenty five cents.
$127 trillion if I remember right, and the interest alone would likely amount to about $15k annually for every working age American.
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