Thanks. Where can I learn more - about this coin and the series?
I have just acquired an 1864 two cent piece that is "medal turn" or 180 degree rotated reverse. Is this unusual? I have read there are a lot of...
Unless they have changed the formulation in recent times, Lava has a pretty serious abrasive in it. You might want to work with a dish-washing or...
Coin Values and PCGS have an unqualified 1934 entry which I interpret as the medium motto. The Red book (2008) only lists the DDO, heavy, light...
This is exactly what I was looking for :) I think a big part of my problem is that the wear on lower grade coins blurs the differences between...
And three more that I could not load into the previous message: Album 1934: [ATTACH] Album 1934D [ATTACH] No.3 [ATTACH] I have a dealers...
Here are some more examples that give me troubles: No. 2 [ATTACH] No.5 [ATTACH]
OK. Here is one that is giving me trouble. (Pardon the photo, I am just learning a new camera and how to shoot coins) (And also learning how to...
Thanks all for the references. It was the Heritage pictures that caused me to create this thread. I must have the visual equivalent of a "tin...
I should have been more explicit. I mean how to distinguish between the "heavy", "light" and "medium" motto varieties.
Where can I find out about the 1934 Washington quarter mottos? Preferably with pictures.
As a coin collector, I felt that I should have an ancient coin in my collection. So when the local coin store had: GREECE - LYDIA 521-485BC...
While this is undoubtedly true, the particular dealer I was referring to is VERY knowledgeable. The problem is that there is nothing equivalent to...
I think the real problem is that there are definite standards (several in fact, but they don't differ that much) for grading, but there are NO...
Anybody know what impact this had on employees? How many of their staff moved to Colorado? And what of their relation to the ANA?
I want to point out that Steve's Gift Shop has SGS coins available on iOffer.com for those that just have to have one. For those that don't know...
I guess I have not been expressing myself very clearly. The comment about grading cleaned coins was meant to be a sarcastic overstatement, not a...
Then to put my complaint in your terms, the grading companies have changed the definition of damage. In common sense terms, look at any low...
My problem with this is that the same coin can be considered gradeable by one grader and "damaged and not gradeable" by another. In many cases,...
I have been thinking about the cleaning issue lately. I can easily understand why an original coin would be more desirable (read more expensive)...
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