Great looking coins. Your experience certainly highlights the uncertainties and subjectivity inherent in the grading process.
I missed this excellent thread the first time around. glad it was bumped. Very informative and an interesting sub-collection within the CWT's
More information is always better. Nice research. What die do you think you have? Now I'm thinking die 1 instead of die 4. If the die...
I do think that combining the information on the die rotation with the mintmark position and apperance should be enough to establish authenticity,...
I have one of those, too. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I really like the Bode tokens. Here is a good thread about those and Mr. Bode himself. My example is posted about halfway down the thread....
The image that John Burgess cites I can't find on my computer; I think I copied it from a post on the CU forum years ago. The die rotation info...
I found this image of the 4 mintmark positions on my external hard drive: [ATTACH]
Not much to add, but when I looked at the rev closeups I could see that the plant details were very granular and consistent with a transfer die fake.
Thanks, Publius2. I'll refer to it as the "mute eagle" variety.
I see. the 2 in 25 is low.
Hmm, think I have one too, my lone "late" bust quarter [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Was that Sheridan's auction? Lots of eye candy!
These circulated in early America and have an interesting design A lot of shipwreck salvaged coins are available as well as a lot of cleaned and...
great coin, and deserving of JA's approval
Wow that's a beauty. I'll guess AU53.
Great coins,Kanga. good choices.
It looks good to me, grade wise about mid VF. Rims are nice and no major hits in the fields. Dark splotch next to the date may just be toning,...
Sold for nearly $2200!
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