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1) agreed 2) lock 40, but reddish quasi-haze confuses me. Surely someone will find several paragraphs on the standards for 1916-P and 1916-S adjusted for strike quality for each mint Explicatio ad ab… (View Post)

Sadly, mis-exposed to the point where color distortion make the images unusable. (View Post)

Gene knew his days were numbered before the Newman Sale. A hedge-fund manager who sold his first very high quality collection in 1965 because "my wife didn't want to live in an apartment an… (View Post)

Many coins from 1862 have heavily polished dies. In addition to gold dollars and $2 1/2's and proof $1's, $2 1/2 and $5's, there is very heavy die-polishing on some of the S$1's o… (View Post)

There are multiple secondary graders at CAC. If one of their packages comes in they are excluded from the process. No gifts. JA is strenuously scrupulous. I've personally seen him pay $20,000 to… (View Post)