I think you should call it a thread thread.
It depends. Sometimes you can get great value in a details holder. And sometimes I find coins in details holders that seem to have no reason for...
One of my favorite "coins" that I no longer have was an electrotype of a fairly high grade 1813 large cent altered to 1815. Does being a fake...
What would I bid? and what do I think it is worth? are two very different things. You appear to be asking what it would be worth to someone, not...
Someone please define for me the differences between light, slight and traces of wear.
I'm at 35 as well. This is what a PCGS AU58 looks like [ATTACH]
Smoothing is a euphemism for burnishing. As others have said, it is a process of moving metal using a blunt tool of either steel or stone....
Must be viral. He's carrying is surfboard.
Looks like it might have been a wrapper for a chocolate coin.
ASE, LOL, just more TLAs.
The second one does have wear on the face, beard, etc. AU 58. The first one look like some level of UNC. Without seeing the actual coin, I...
JP Morgan notwithstanding, gold is NOT money and hasn't been for a long time. Technically, it's legal tender, but I'd love for someone to borrow a...
Definitely not a product of the US Mint.
The cost of ANA membership relative to the cost of a coin that you're going to get slabbed and CAC'd is negligible. The amount of information that...
It is strange that the obverse shows clear signs of long burial, but the reverse looks fine. It's hard to believe that the two sides are of the...
The reverse enlargement is SO large and pixillated, that I can't even tell what you want us to look at.
Wanting to be a CAC member but not an ANA member is certainly putting things bass-ackwards.
As Publius 2 says, it's my 4-E, Cohen's 4. No way to tell about the edge from the photos. The most common 1794 half cent, if you can use the word...
There is a large blotchy dark area, and to the left of that there are two lighter spots. To me it LOOKS to be the result of a chemical cleaning.
Fake wasn't an option, but if it had been, that's where I would have gone.
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