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Well there you go. Our host has settled the issue. Mintmark. (View Post)

If you're willing to break the MS rule I'd consider a nice AU58 which might allow for a much better date. (View Post)

Business strike = A coin produced using contemporary techniques for general circulation (pocket change). A commemorative coin could be considered a business strike if the techniques employed in its c… (View Post)

Carrying one in your pocket with pocket change will give it an unnatural shiny burnished appearance that many experienced gold coin collectors would recognize as being unnatural and unoriginal. So, i… (View Post)

Lets say you bought an AU Details - Cleaned gold coin that has light hairlines. If you take the coin and "circulate" it or use it as a pocket piece to the point of lets say VF or XF and no … (View Post)