The answer to that is gonna depend on the personal taste of whoever is thinking about buying it. And since you can't ever know what their taste...
That's the thing about definitions - isn't it ? By your definition why wouldn't the Continental Currency and/or the Nova Constellatio Patterns,...
They often are. That said, I used to make my living, and a very good one, by being able to tell engineers when they were wrong. :)
The answer to that question would depend on how one defines "America's first coin". I would think that to qualify for that designation certain...
I gotta ask, where exactly are you seeing this condensation ? Can you describe its location ? Because I don't see anything that looks like...
It's a simple fact of life, there are good dealers, so-so dealers, and bad dealers. Just like there are good collectors, so-so collectors, and bad...
Now this not a modern coin, let alone a plated coin, but that really has little to do with it. What I'm going to show here is an example of what...
It was probably a glitch of some kind on their end - that they finally discovered and have now fixed.
I cannot speak to the authenticity of the token, but what we see on the obv is a rather severe lamination. Something I think would be fairly...
That's a good way of describing it. That "smoothed" look is the result of altered surfaces. In effect the area is "rubbed" to try and make the...
That dirt you're talkin about, it used to be rocks before it became dirt - and I'm waaaaay older than those rocks :p And yeah, gonna getcha for...
I wouldn't hazard a guess on the grade number they assigned, and I'm not even sure they used this designation but for this coin I'd call it...
These are some examples what the maker of Verdi-Care has had to say about heavy verdigris in the past....
:arghh: :oops: - that is something I was not aware of. :sorry:
I seriously disagree ! Now I'll grant you there's lots of coin roller damaged coins out there. But you'd have a better chance of winning 2...
You've apparently never seen coins in ICG slabs get upgraded by PCGS, and NGC. And yes, there have been many times that has happened. Would it...
Jim, in the date area,#2 is the way the coin is supposed to look. [ATTACH] I think what Martha is asking about is why #1 looks like this - (and...
Somewhere, buried deep in the recesses of my mind, I knew I liked you. But it was so very, very long ago - that I had forgotten about it ! NOW I...
He'll have to answer for himself, but I believe he's talking the fact that "it" has a ton of wear on it and therefore isn't anywhere near unc !...
CT members have making posts about fakes/counterfeits on ebay for as long as CT has existed, and they still do make them on a fairly regular...
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