Coinbuf

I have purchased a handful of coins over the years thru Heritage auctions, but the high seller fees make it an unattractive unless you have some major rarieties. In fact they aren't really all that interested in consignments under 5K. For selling Great Collections is a much better option for most collectors. While they do have a ton of photos (Heritage) their photos leave much to be desired much of the time. Edited to add here is one I bought many years ago.

He is only coning himself.

Does not look plated but treated with something to get the blue color. And the lines do look like damage from tape.

Really nice coins!

You don't understand, sometimes the dies used for striking (not printing) coins will have grease in a small area of the die and a few coins that are minted before the grease falls out may have soft or missing details. Your photos are too small and become too pixilated when I enlarge to see any details, if you want further info please post a clear cropped photo of both sides of the coin in question so we can see what your describing. Missing details from a grease filled die are very common and do not increase the value of the coin.

I don't recall seeing him post here, at least not recently. He does post on the PCGS forum.

Where do we get the hook up?

Have to be somewhat torn on this, on one hand the engraving is beautiful and so well done. On the other hand that is a seated dollar.

Thanks Lisa.

Damage from wire cutters.

It can and does happen, usually its a by product of improper storage. Some people very much like toned coins and some do not, deep cameo refers to when a coin looks black and white. The fields will look black and the portrait/letters look white (copper in the case of cents). I don't have a photo of one of my DCAM Lincolns so I pulled this obv from the NGC explorer.

Sorry but just Pareidolia, a fancy way to say that the mind sees what it wants to. That is not even close to the size or shape of the mint mark used for nickels.

Looks to be just MD (mechanical doubling) or die erosion not a true double die. This type of doubling is very common and very often mistaken by new collectors, MD is not valuable or collectable. I've attached a photo to help demonstrate the difference.

I was talking to a representative for Ship and Insure about reactivating my account there. She said she thought there was a discount for NGC members when shipping to NGC (and perhaps to CAC?) through FedEx. Is there any information you can provide on any shipping discounts available to NGC members. Regards

I an wondering if this coronavirus scare and the recent stock market devaluation that is in part tied to this issue will have any effect on auctions and coin buying in general. Often when something like this happens the "non-essential" spending is put on hold, do you think this will have a short/long term effect on the spending habits of collectors?

Does anyone have an example of what the photo vision looks like that they are willing to share? I have a couple of coins I'd like to submit and am wondering if the $8 is worth the price. In the past I have mostly used Mark Goodman for pictures, and while I consider him the very best if NGC does a good job I might opt for that on these to save the extra shipping costs.