<< <i><<< When I look at their website, I think the same thing -- all those images of 19th Century proof gold have the same look as PF69 DCAM GAEs!! Shouldn't most of these coins have some toning or color after 100 to 150 years? >>>
They don't necessarily have to be toned or colored, but nearly every original proof gold piece I've seen will have a nice light haze or film to the fields and devices to a lesser extent. I'm referring to original coins that come out of very old time collections or estates.
Of course once they make it into the dealers hands and get conserved, lasered, dipped out, and whatever else they do to them, they don't even look like the same coins anymore. But the goal is not to preserve or have a beautiful original coin, but rather to get it into the highe$t grade piece of pla$tic with the be$t de$ignation. >>
New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.
<< <i>Hi There, The coi n is sold. A new person to collecting !! >>
If I saw this thread earlier, I would have bought it.
Always took candy from strangers Didn't wanna get me no trade Never want to be like papa Working for the boss every night and day --"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
to think graders who think they're "all that" can sleep after under grading such an example at 66...what not even a star????oh well very nice double eagle there and i think you got robbed a couple grade points and she deserves a star shall i say
everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see
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<< <i><<< When I look at their website, I think the same thing -- all those images of 19th Century proof gold have the same look as PF69 DCAM GAEs!! Shouldn't most of these coins have some toning or color after 100 to 150 years? >>>
They don't necessarily have to be toned or colored, but nearly every original proof gold piece I've seen will have a nice light haze or film to the fields and devices to a lesser extent. I'm referring to original coins that come out of very old time collections or estates.
Of course once they make it into the dealers hands and get conserved, lasered, dipped out, and whatever else they do to them, they don't even look like the same coins anymore. But the goal is not to preserve or have a beautiful original coin, but rather to get it into the highe$t grade piece of pla$tic with the be$t de$ignation. >>
This is heartbreaking.
In fact, I like these much more than the St. Gaudens $20 (sacriledge, I know).
MS66 seems undergraded for that beautiful treasure.
<< <i>Wow!
MS66 seems undergraded for that beautiful treasure.
That's why you don't purchase coins off an image. A little contrast tweaking and any coin is a black and white cameo [or black and gold in this case
Did someone say "black and gold"?
I expect that you would not recognize the coin, Dizzy, if someone handed it to you.
This is a real "black and gold" coin:
Awesome....Mike
Buying top quality Seated Dimes in Gem BU and Proof.
Buying great coins - monster eye appeal only.
That was smart of you to by two of them, this way you can't see the "COPY" on either side
<< <i>Did someone say "black and gold"?
Gotta love the Black and Gold!
New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.
<< <i>Hi There, The coi n is sold. A new person to collecting !! >>
If I saw this thread earlier, I would have bought it.
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
Glorious!
Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...
Buying top quality Seated Dimes in Gem BU and Proof.
Buying great coins - monster eye appeal only.