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Just arrived yesterday and not the best picture 😀 1853 Small date P.T. and scarce.

Apparently you just ‘remove [the] surface residue’ and, hey presto, everything’s amazing! Superb spot @oldcopper

So, a few questions here. Is it genuinely blue, implying it has been treated with whatever that solution is that leaves a blue residue? Are the hair strands now in higher relief having been 'improved'? That guy in the states does a good repair job, so enhancing the hair would be a simple job for him. Do PCGS routinely alter their images from the colours seen naturally in hand? Many images have this blue colour, implying consistency of manipulation, even if not giving an accurate representation. The US market apparently likes this colour scheme based on realised prices. If the images are routinely doctored, then how do you differentiate between them and those that have been artificially coloured?

Hang on a cotton-pickin'-minute.... In good faith I bought a coin I believed to be a proof, struck in silver, with an attractive blue toning. What's this brown jobby you've sent me? Joking aside; I'm gobsmacked. You're absolutely right Mike.

Americans like it - then again they used to like putin , you remember george bush junior hugging him and going on about special relationship - bah - get a room!

I have had a chance to look at my 1882’s this afternoon. I have three F111 2/1 coins, one is as BP 1882 Ka, and the other two appear not to be ‘K’ but much more like the F114 2/1 Gouby shows, with a small spike further to the left. These both have a miniscule protrusion on the top of the arch of the 2 that could be the top left serif of the 1. Then I have one F114 2/1 as per Gouby BP 1882 Ma. I would say that one of my F111’s is identical to the F114 overstrike, and the other may be but the spike is less distinct. So have I possibly a new variety? I will try and get some microscope pics to show what I am looking at. Jerry

The saying goes the camera never lies, but can distort the truth.

Madness, madness, they call it madness Madness, madness, they call it madness It's plain to see That is what they mean to me Madness, madness, they call it gladness, ha-ha Madness, madness, they call it madness Madness, madness, they call it madness I'm about to explain A-That someone is losing their brain Hey, madness, madness, I call it gladness, yee-ha-ha-ha Propaganda ministers Propaganda ministers I've a-got a heavy due I'm gonna walk all over you 'Cause Madness, madness, they call it madness Well if this is madness Then I know I'm filled with gladness It's gonna be rougher It's gonna be tougher, pa-da-da, pa-da-da But I won't be the one who's gonna suffer Oh no, I won't be the one who's gonna suffer You are gonna be the one, a-you...

Yes, shame the blue toner has added >$10K to the price!

Yes i had aleady seen it ,its the LCA one. Posted your other picture at the same time 😀

Put us all out of our misery:

1860 2* obverse I presume? These do seem to remain remarkably scarce. Well done. Jerry

I was looking through my late sister’s papers and came across $20 confederate bill. It was only printed on one side and I initially thought it was a copy. On closer examination and looking at one online at real examples it seems that they were only printed on one side. Whether this one is genuine I don’t know but it’s trying to look like a real bill. My sister was very interested in th American Civil War and the Confederacy.

Go team! Well, some of these coins are likely so rare that it is luck now but knowledge has a way of enhancing luck!

This phenomena begins with a circular ring of rust at the surface of a steel die formed due to corrosion at the edge of a tiny circular water droplet on the die. As this progresses it results in a circular ‘dot’ of rust on the surface of the die, which is pulverized and lost as the die is used in the coining press leaving a round pit. This shows up on the coin as a circular raised dot. The process has been documented in an article by Paul M. Holland in the Journal of the Numismatic Association of Australia, volume 27, 2016, pages 1-6.