@Rick Stachowski, can you post a detail image of "DEI" on your 1893 Canadian Nickel?
My point stands. It's never been worth talking about, it still isn't worth talking about, and your belief that it ever was worth talking about is...
Ahhhhh, crap. I've made a career out of panning stuff like this, and I may just have to get my March of Dimes Dollar into one of those slabs. I...
By whom? In almost 15 years of talking about this stuff on the Internet I've never once heard an educated opinion (as in, coming from someone who...
Look at the influx, every day, of newbies posting (sometimes inane) questions regarding shiny objects they've picked up. The collectors who are...
I'm probably just jaded - compared to the utter ripoffs happening on Ebay on a daily basis, I filter stuff like that out without even seeing it. :)
That linked coin is not identified either on the slab or in the auction as "Full Steps."
From a numismatic standpoint, they are a deliberate deception on the part of unscrupulous businesses, attempting to add perceived value in the...
One of your options - heck, probably your most-likely option - is to be bluntly honest with your client regarding the current state of the...
Oh, I understand; I was speaking more of generalities than known issue-specific data. The point being, a coin struck by a former Proof die is no...
Poor quality control in the heat-treating process. Keep in mind the quantity of dies being produced for a given striking year; they had to have...
The B1 and B2 Reverses were entirely different from those used for High Relief; although the design was closer to the 1921 Aa Reverse than the...
I bought it from McCawley at a Baltimore show ten years ago. The luster was terrific, and I think the reason NGC overlooked a few extra nicks to...
Nope. That's "die poop" level frippery; Proof dies were repurposed for Business Strikes with great regularity in US coinage and it's difficult to...
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