Unfortunately all of the pieces you have have been cleaned to one extent or another. 1800 - Cleaned and recolored with smoothing in the fields. EF...
No, cleaned begins with hairlines, which result when metal is moved around with a polishing device. Absent of those, cleaned can mean polished, which...
Lettered edges would be more interesting, but would cost your club a significant premium because they must be added before or after the piece is...
Sorry, post mint damage. A die clash will often show a ghosted image of the opposite side, usually in the fields.
Correction! I should have typed 1875 instead of 1876 for my mintage total of 400 in my previous post.
There is too much luster left on this dollar to grade it AU. There is a rim nick at 1k on the obverse that would lower it to AU for some. The...
Unless there are hairlines under the toning, the “cleaned” claim is bogus. BTW, I have never collected or studied Bust Half Dollars by die variety....
If it does not show a value, like “dol,” it’s not good. It’s only a token or souvenir. Good pass!
I am guessing that the first graded and the second one didn’t. It looks like the first one has been darkened, which helped cover up the finger prints...
Looks like it’s a nice coin to me. I am not a red copper fan so this color looks great to me.
Here is close to an 1804 Dollar as most any of us are ever going to get. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] And here is another one, the 1804 British Bank Dollar....
After the Dupont robbery, there were a couple of them that disappeared from sight for a while, but both of those coins have been recovered. One of...
When you country or cause is going down the tubes, governemnts are ready to do just about anything. The Continental Congress did the same thing with...
The 1864 five and ten dollar confederate notes are the most common pieces in the series. By the end of the war, the Confederacy was desperate which...
From the financial perspective, it is probably close to a tie between the Type I and Type II gold dollars. There are only six coins in the Type II...
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