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MarkFeld

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  1. MarkFeld
    Why is “matte” a “suitable descriptive term” for Lincoln and Buffalo Proofs, but not 1908 and 1911-1915 Proof U.S. gold coins? coins
  2. MarkFeld
    Welcome to the forum. The coin was nothing special and of no extra value. Many coins have dull finishes or have been cleaned or damaged. There’s absolutely no reason to think your coin is anything special.
  3. MarkFeld
    Was my previous answer unclear?
  4. MarkFeld
    I’m sure CAC can see and evaluate smaller coins, just fine. I think it’s far more likely that the reason is common date Mercury dimes don’t have large price spreads, so there was less incentive to resubmit conservatively graded examples.
  5. MarkFeld
    On the other hand, I think the coin looks attractive in both sets of pictures.
  6. MarkFeld
    Thank you, I had misunderstood you.
  7. MarkFeld
    How would additional images being made available only to the owner, help the counterfeit label and holder problem? Potential buyers wouldn’t be any better off unless the owner wanted to share the information. And for sellers on eBay, that would be a large nuisance. Even then, scammers, posing as bidders, could end up with the images.
  8. MarkFeld
    Holders don’t need to be opened if you have counterfeit labels and holders.
  9. MarkFeld
    The coin in the opening post could be an XF (rather than AU) in terms of wear. But even if it is, it’s nowhere close to VF20. If you disagree, I invite you to post pictures of a graded VF 20 example that matches it.😉 Here's a VF25: And here's a Photograde XF45, which has less detail than than the subject coin.
  10. MarkFeld
    I don’t think the coins are counterfeit.
  11. MarkFeld
    In the case of a 1964 half dollar, the average Proof and the average business strike are worth about the same amount. So there’s no meaningful economic incentive in distinguishing the method of manufacture.
  12. MarkFeld
    The coin looks like a cleaned AU example, worth approximately $35.
  13. MarkFeld
    That’s better, and I withdraw my “bologna” comment😉, though you initially wrote “ auctions of the1980's and 1990's.
  14. MarkFeld
    The comment to which you originally replied mentioned“The auction companies merely repeat whatever is on the label”. That would be a reference to coins that were already graded. If your (bologna😉) statement was referring to ungraded coins, you didn’t indicate it and that’s a different matter.
  15. MarkFeld
    Sorry, but I think it’s bologna to state that it wasn’t uncommon to see Saints 2-3 grades too low in such auctions.
  16. MarkFeld
    As I said “I have full confidence in his in-hand assessment.”
  17. MarkFeld
    I saw this thread, so I contacted one of our cataloguers and asked him to check to see whether the coin was correctly attributed. He viewed it and determined that it is. I have full confidence in his in-hand assessment.
  18. MarkFeld
    I appreciate that. Still, I will leave my reply up (including your post) for anyone who might have already seen the post and gotten the wrong impression.
  19. MarkFeld
    What you described is incorrect. It sounds as if you're talking about "Heritage Live" bidders, (not Heritage, itself) who bid live at the time of the sale, rather than placing internet bids prior to the live sale. Not surprisingly, "Heritage Live" bidders win a great many lots. See link below, about "Heritage Live" and if you have questions about this, please feel free to contact me directly. https://www.ha.com/c/halive/
  20. MarkFeld
    For many of us, there absolutely is a point in paying strong money for common coins - when they’re of exceptional quality and/or beauty and we want to acquire them.
  21. MarkFeld
    It’s not the fact that the coins are ungraded which makes them counterfeit. It’s that their details and surface textures don’t match what’s seen on genuine examples.
  22. MarkFeld
    I bet you didn’t think that - not even for a “brief moment”.
  23. MarkFeld
    Often, 90% silver coins are referred to as “junk silver”. The reference doesn’t sound the least bit curious to me.
  24. MarkFeld
    Good luck.
  25. MarkFeld
    In doing my search of the Heritage auction archives, in the search box (“Enter Keyword or Lot Number”) I typed in “1908 Wells Fargo” and from the drop-down menu (“All Rare Coins”) to its right, I selected “Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles”.