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Here's my terminal state piece. It's so ugly, it's beautiful. The obv has cracked, spread, and sunk so drastically the piece is 3 mm thicker in the center than at the rims. (View Post)

If you want a really good lesson in gradeflation across all grades and series, you need look no further than an old Brown and Dunn or ANA grading guide with the old line drawings. I have always maint… (View Post)

I'd have to look at it on my big 4K monitor at home to be sure, but that certainly looks like a DTS State B Original. For those questioning the alignment, the Starless Reverse is designed such that t… (View Post)

From period newspapers, the crackdown apparently started with a collector of some influence who got miffed over a fake 1804 dollar or half dollar. The reports are a little garbled, so at this point I… (View Post)

It's not certain that Kimball was behind the electro crackdown. The whole kerfuffle starts sometime in late 1885 with the seizure of 1804 dollar and half dollar counterfeits and altered dates. As nea… (View Post)