Sorry, I don't have a slab photo. I'm thinking 35 seems about right, but again this isn't a series I know a lot about , and all the die clashing...
The person I bought it from said he thought it was a bit undergraded. Honestly, I think it looks about as nice as an XF40 for sale on a prominent...
NIce! I'll guess AU55.
it is in a straight graded holder. I have also looked at it closely under a point source light and don't see any signs of a cleaning.
I'll post the pcgs grade tomorrow evening. Thanks for all the guesses and comments so far.
uh-huh.
I'm not much of a CBH variety collector, but I like the ones with strong die clashes, the overdates, the "blundered" dates, coins that show how...
Looks mark free at least in critical areas, booming luster, nice color, 66+?
O108a, with the heavy die clashes. A difficult coin to image, as the die clashes reflect light at odd angles, and there is a big die bulge to the...
agree with the die clashes. weak stars are very common in this series; in fact Bowers has written that he has never seen a complete set of MS 3...
Interesting tokens. They must be pretty fragile, being hollow. Thanks for the election history, too. My old high school history teacher liked...
would roller marks look any different? How so?
There seems to be a slight curve to the group of cheek marks, so maybe from a coin counting machine. I don't think anyone has mentioned roller...
What makes the most sense to me is some debris imbedded in the rollers used to flatten the metal strips.
Thanks for telling us that the marks of interest are into the surface and not raised. That would be helpful to know from the first post; I don't...
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Nice luster. 62?
Die polish marks in the fields. I don't like the term "die polish" as polish suggests a mirror like surface, prepared with care. Something like...
Me too!
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] I think a lot of these don't have a great strike. On mine, the turret looks like a fancy teapot.
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