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Colorful and interesting.......striking and eye-catching. Too many BTW's are drab, mottled brown and silver hues. Do not see it as hideous, horrible, ugly, or vomitous (HHUV). (View Post)

Sorry Stewart. I saw the AU53 at the start of your post and assumed that was the grade. In any event I liked the coin a lot. So 58 doesn't surprise me. The cheek has considerable rub but the res… (View Post)

The Langbord decision is the 1st foot in the door for potential "recovery" of ANY coin that "may" have left the mint without their full faith and blessing. (View Post)

Today's standards for grading are about 80% in line with those from the late 1980's. All that's really changed is that the scale was stretched to bring the higher grades more into play… (View Post)

I think the TPG's are looking forward to that day....and all the old holdered coins all get redone again. (View Post)