I like shiney silver

Your way nice. Stay the course. Shiny is super good

 

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Hear that. Very nice shizzles

 

I thought the same. The 63 Franklin is a mint state beauty, but the Walker has been messed with. Either whizzing, or buffing/polishing, I'm not sure.

That said, it's still a Walker, so still a lovely coin, messed with or not.

 

I'm not John, but I'll give you my opinion.

When I blow up the picture I literally see them everywhere. Devices, fields , , , all over the coin. But it's most obvious to me even at lower resolutions in in the large field areas, such as where I circled here.



Blow up this pic and take a good look in that area and think about what you're seeing there on the surface. And once you understand that, if you look closely, I think you'll see that all over the coin.

 

All well and good, but I still don't see the hairline scratches that you apparently do and mentioned.

 

I see some small marks that are not what I would expect from using a brush. I am looking for small, parallel lines that are indications of bristles moving across the coin. Instead, I see short, random lines that go off in different directions. Loss of luster I understand, but I need more than random marks that I believe have a different origin.

 

OK. I have another question. Looking through the most recent Coin World magazine price guide, I notice that MS67 coins are higher valued than Proof69. I am sure there is an easy answer for this. Population? Seems to me that proof69 would be more valuable, but that is just me. I learn more about this insane hobby everyday.

 

There are a many reasons for this. If you are talking about coins from the 1940s through the 1990s, MS-67 coins are very unusual. Many coins were not made well enough to rate that grade. The few coins that were made that well, have since gotten some post mint damage. To me MS-67 grade means "virtually perfect," at least to me. If I can spot something easily without a glass, it's not MS-67.

Proof coins represent the best that the mint could make at the time, given the demand. For example in the early 1940 and early 1950s, some Proof coins were "rushed through" without enough die pair changes, in my opinion. Therefore for coins from say 1980s to the present, PR-69 is not unusual. For earlier Proof coins, those are hard to find in PR-67 let along PR-69.

Finally there are collectors who have more respect for high grade Mint State coins than high grade Proof coins. You can often buy Proof type coins from the 19th century for less than their Mint State counterparts. Since I like Proof coins more, that works for me, but I am not an average collector.

I have given you some broad brush concepts here. If you want more specifics, you might put up another post.

 

Thank you John. Lesson learned,