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This cast has been around for like 60 years. Reasonably decent, but almost always 4g or so underweight and honestly, if you're good you can tell. I HAVE pics of one in a PCGS holder and one in NGC. (View Post)

Also, that left side is as made, off-centered. Edge pattern is intact there. (View Post)

One could argue that coins in South/Central America were worked to the bone and thus survived more than expected. Hence Carlos & Juana coinage getting El Salvador counterstamps in the early-mid 1… (View Post)

The hoard find is interesting... I've never seen any large grouping of portraits come out of Russia. Zacatecas portraits were truly terrible in the early years of the WOI... 1816 seems to begin somew… (View Post)

Had this out so took a pic. Somewhat subdued luster, as examples of this debased silver coinage often exhibit. Not many of these 4S have great booming cartwheel. In hand, it IS a bit twinklier, but a… (View Post)