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That's a real crusty luster piece. Patina too thick to try any dunk (perhaps if someone had done so 50 years ago...). Can't at all quibble with the technical grade. Obverse looks pretty OK... reverse… (View Post)

Quite possibly... based on how the legend lettering and his chicken feathers line up with the denticles, plus how TI of GRATIA interacts with the edge. (View Post)

@Abuelo, interesting piece, nicely struck/preserved. I do believe that's a well-executed example of one of the numerous contemporary counterfeits of this series, for which 1836 is definitely the most… (View Post)

This thread turned into some larger discussion about slabbed pops or whatever - that's not the point. For anyone who's actually perused their census before... they always had one spreadsheet for stra… (View Post)

Richard August... outbid me on a number of eBay pieces over the years. RIP. (View Post)